Vowel-Shifting in the English Language An Evolutionary Account
Kamil Kazmierski
English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and optimality theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the 'shiftiness' of many post-medieval English varieties.
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2015
Izdavač:
De Gruyter Mouton
Jezik:
english
Strane:
222
ISBN 10:
3110369508
ISBN 13:
9783110369502
Serije:
Topics in English Linguistics 88
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EPUB, 1.74 MB
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,
english, 2015
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