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Locality in vowel harmony / Andrew Nevins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nevins, Andrew.
- Series:
- Linguistic inquiry monographs.
- Linguistic inquiry monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Vowel harmony.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Phonetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 244 p.) : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29381-1
- 1-282-73700-7
- 9786612737008
- 0-262-28057-4
- OCLC:
- 648759759
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612737008
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