Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems

ISBN-13: 9780415537452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Viola Giulia Miglio

Opis

The author investigates various phenomena affecting both stressed and unstressed vowels in Romance languages and analyses vowel reduction, which involves a change of vowel quality in stressless syllables that favours vowel qualities that are maximally distinguishable from one another.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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.