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Markedness and faithfulness in vowel systems /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miglio, Viola, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Colección:Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Vowel systems : reduction and change
  • chapter 2. Mantuan vowel deletion
  • chapter 3. Romance vowel reduction phenomena
  • chapter 4. Mantuan chain shifts
  • chapter 5. Diachronic chain shifts : the great vowel shift
  • chapter 6. Conclusions.