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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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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.