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Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this work looks at the analysis of elision directionaility and the correlation between the active value of (ATR) in a language and the language's vowel inventory. The paper develops the idea of ATR Predictability.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Vowel Elision Chapter 3: Coalescence and Feature-Sensitive Elision Chapter 4: Height Coalescence Chapter 5: Height Coalescence and Theories of Vowel Height Chapter 6: An Analysis of Height Coalescence Chapter 7: An Approach to Height Feature Specification
Biography
Roderic F. Casali
