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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765858803321

Autore

Smith Jennifer L. <1971->

Titolo

Phonological augmentation in prominent positions / / Jennifer L. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2005

ISBN

1-135-87599-5

1-135-87600-2

1-280-22618-8

9786610226184

0-203-50639-1

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Psycholinguistics

Optimality theory (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 323

Sommario/riassunto

Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be heavy, default stress is inserted into roots, or word-initial onsets must be low in sonority. In this book, Jennifer Smith shows that phonological processes specific to strong positions are distinct from those involved in classic positional neutralization effects because they always serve to augment the strong position with a perceptually salient characteristic. Formally, positional augmentation effects are modeled by means of markedness constraints relativized to strong positions. Because positional augmentation constraints are



subject to certain substantive restrictions, as seen in their connection to perceptual salience, this study has implications for the relationship between functional grounding and phonological theory.