Positional Faithfulness: An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries

ISBN-13: 9780815333487 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 316 str.

Jill N. Beckman

Opis

This book examines these diverse segmental asymmetries, using Optimality Theory, a constraint-based approach to generative grammar, as an analytic tool. After introducing the notion of positional privilege, the author presents a series of case studies in which positional faithfulness constraints play a key role. These include coda devoicing, place assimilation, unstressed vowel reduction, nasal harmony and vowel harmony.

Spis treści

CHAPTER 1 Aspects of Positional Faithfulness Theory CHAPTER 2 Root-Initial Faithfulness CHAPTER 3 Faithfulness in Stressed Syllables CHAPTER 4 Root Faithfulness CHAPTER 5 Prominence Maximization

O autorze

Jill N. Beckman