Markedness and faithfulness in vowel systems / Viola Miglio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miglio, Viola, 1966- author.

Series:

Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vowels.

Markedness (Linguistics).

Optimality theory (Linguistics).

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Vowel Systems: Reduction and Change; 1.0 Introduction: Themes of the Book; 1.1 Vowel Reduction; 1.1.1 Change in Vowel Features and Opacity; 1.1.2 Correlates of Stress; 1.1.3 Language Change; 1.1.4 Goals of the Book; 1.2 Issues in Optimality Theory; 1.2.1 What is in UG; 1.2.2 Markedness Constraints; 1.2.3 Faithfulness and Positional Faithfulness Constraints; 1.2.4 Lexicon Optimization; 1.2.5 Typological Considerations; 1.3 Theoretical Achievements of the Book

1.3.1 Unification of Vowel Reduction Phenomena and Typological Findings1.3.2 Local Conjunction as a Way to Model Opacity in OT; 1.3.3 The Great Vowel Shift and Models of Language Change in OT; 1.4. Overview of the Book; Chapter 2: Mantuan Vowel Deletion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Data on Syllable Structure; 2.3 Stress; 2.4 V ~ 0 Alternations in Syllables Preceding Stress; 2.5 An OT Account of Mantuan Syllable and Word Structure; 2.5.1 Basic Syllable structure Constraints and Their Ranking; 2.5.2 Importance of NoCoda

2.5.3 Interaction with Faithfulness: No Insertion (Dep-V) and No Deletion (Max-V)2.5.4 Prevention of Apocope; 2.5.5 Deletion of Consonants in Mantuan: Max-C; 2.6 Mantuan Alternations as Deletion of Pretonic Vowels; 2.6.1 *Struc(σ) drives deletion; 2.6.2 Consequences for Other Derived - Alternating Forms; 2.6.3 Disallowed Clusters in Alternating Forms; 2.6.4 A Different Syllabification Problem; 2.6.5 Summary; 2.7 An Alternative with Alignment and DEP-V Driving Deletion; 2.8 Epenthesis in (C)C^C# environments; 2.8.1 Introduction of Sonority constraint; 2.8.2 Dealing with disallowed clusters

2.9 Conclusion: Assessment of Deletion and EpenthesisAppendix to Chapter II: A Digression on Italian Syllable Structure; 1. Italian syllable structure ranking; Chapter 3: Romance Vowel Reduction Phenomena; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Vowel Reduction; 3.3 Vowel Features; 3.3.1 Status of Reduced Segments: An Argument from Catalan; 3.4 Data; 3.4.1 Western Catalan ("Tensing"); 3.4.2 Brazilian Portuguese ("Tensing" and "Raising"); 3.4.2.1 Brazilian Portuguese Non-Final System; 3.4.2.2 Brazilian Final System; 3.4.3 Eastern Catalan ("Centralization" - "Raising"); 3.5 Basic Theoretical Considerations (OT)

4.3 Alternations

Notes:

Rev. version of the author's dissertation (Ph. D.).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-45687-9

0-415-53745-2

0-203-95766-0

1-135-45680-1

9780203957660

OCLC:

862825877