Positional Faithfulness: An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries / Edition 1

by Jill N. Beckman

Overview

First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what'she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable features in determining the outcome of harmony. This volume of research outlines the authirs discoveries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815333487
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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