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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459866903321

Autore

Nevins Andrew

Titolo

Locality in vowel harmony [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Nevins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010

ISBN

0-262-29381-1

1-282-73700-7

9786612737008

0-262-28057-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 244 p.) : ill., maps

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Vowel harmony

Phonetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- What's vowel harmony, how does it vary, and why study it? -- The search principle -- Contrastiveness, markedness and feature-based locality -- Defective intervention: when search comes back empty-handed -- Domain-limitations on search -- Minimalist computation of vowel harmony: implications.

Sommario/riassunto

This work offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.