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Vowel-Shifting in the English Language An Evolutionary Account

Name: Vowel-Shifting in the English Language An Evolutionary Account
ISBN: 9783110369502

Kamil Kazmierski

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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.

种类:

Languages - Grammar, dictionaries & phrasebooks

年:

2015

出版社:

De Gruyter Mouton

语言:

english

页:

222

ISBN 10:

3110369508