1st Edition

Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction

By Samuel Rosenthall, Laurence Horn Copyright 1997
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    298 Pages
    by Routledge

    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