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9783110869248
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9783110130508
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Publications in Language Sciences 30
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A Formal Theory of Vowel Coalescence : A Case Study of Ancient Greek Publications in Language Sciences
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Representations, Relations and Constraints in Phonology; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 The representation of distinctive features; 1.1.1 The static view: Clements (1985, 1987a), Sagey (1986b); 1.1.2 The dynamic view: Tier Decomposition; 1.1.3 A comparison: static or dynamic feature representation; 1.1.3.1 Two types of P-rules; 1.1.3.2 Single-feature assimilation; 1.1.3.3 Rules of transposition; 1.1.3.4 Feature asymmetries; 1.1.4 Summary; 1.2 Underspecification Theory; 1.2.1 A comparison of Archangeli (1984) and Steriade (1987b); 1.2.2 Arguments pro UT
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1.2.3 Arguments against UT1.2.4 Binary versus single-valued feature representation; 1.3 Inalterability and the Linking Constraint; 1.3.1 Syllabification; 1.3.2 Segment-internal branchingness; 1.4 Lexical Phonology and the Strict Cycle Condition; Footnotes; Chapter Two: Formal Properties of Vowel Coalescence; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Previous analyses; 2.2 Vowel Contraction as feature node coalescence; Footnotes; Chapter Three: The Representation of Vowels in Ancient Greek; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 The diachronic evolution of the Ancient Greek vowel system
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3.2 The representation of the Attic vowel system3.3 Language-internal motivation for UT; 3.3.1 Vowel alternations; 3.3.2 Empty V-slots; 3.3.3 The main vowel rules; 3.3.3.1 Stem Vowel Lowering and Stem Vowel Shortening; 3.3.3.2 Theme Vowel Rounding; 3.3.3.3 /ā/-Fronting; 3.4 Metathesis of Quantity; Footnotes; Chapter Four: Vowel Coalescence and Related Phenomena; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Vowel Coalescence: the data and its characteristics; 4.2 Marked versus unmarked rules; 4.2.1 Leftward Spreading and Vowel Coalescence; 4.2.2 Compensatory Lengthening
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4.3 The formal description of Vowel Coalescence4.3.1 Resyllabification; 4.3.2 Vowel Coalescence proper; 4.3.3 Some recalcitrant data; 4.3.4 Recapitulation; 4.4 The behavior of high vowels in hiatus; 4.4.1 Prevocalic high vowels; 4.4.2 Postvocalic high vowels; 4.5 Summary; Footnotes; Chapter Five: Vowel Coalescence from a cross-linguistic perspective; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Quebec French; 5.2 Korean and Rotuman; 5.2.1 Korean; 5.2.2 Rotuman; 5.2.3 Structure preservation; 5.3 Old Portuguese and Classical Sanskrit; 5.3.1 Old Portuguese; 5.3.2 Classical Sanskrit; 5.4 Recapitulation
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5.5 Apparent VC languages5.5.1 Kasem nominals; 5.5.2 Kikuyu; 5.5.3 Tunica; 5.5.4 Washo; 5.5.5 Conclusions; 5.6 Conclusions; Footnotes; Epilog; References
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