Positional Faithfulness
An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries| By: | Jill N. Beckman |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138979116 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136532115 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1999 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable features in determining the outcome of harmony. This volume of research outlines the authirs discoveries.