1st Edition
Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems
By Viola Giulia Miglio
Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local... Read more
Chapter 1 Vowel Systems; Chapter 2 Mantuan Vowel Deletion; Chapter 3 Romance Vowel Reduction Phenomena; Chapter 4 Mantuan Chain Shifts; Chapter 5 Diachronic Chain Shiftst – The Great Vowel Shift; Chapter 6 Conclusions;
Biography
Viola Miglio received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1999. Her research interests include the phonology of Spanish and Romance languages, theoretical phonology, optimality theory, phonetics, and language change. She currently teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
