Positional Faithfulness
Download or Read eBook Positional Faithfulness PDF written by Jill N. Beckman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Jill N. Beckman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2013-04-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781136532047 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1136532048 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Positional Faithfulness by : Jill N. Beckman
Book excerpt: 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.
