1st Edition
Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction
300 Pages
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Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1997. The alternation between high vowels and glides is shown here to follow from the interaction of phonological constraints as defined by Prince and Smolensky's (1993) Optimality Theory. The alternation stems from simultaneously comparing moraic and nonmoraic parses of high vowels for constraint satisfaction
1 Introduction 2 Surface Patterns of Underlying Vowel Sequences 3 Metrical Influences on Syllabification 4 Other Sources of Glides
Biography
Samuel Rosenthall, Edited by Lawrence Horn, Yale University