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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.
Price: $160.99
Pages: 234
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date:
26 February 2015
ISBN: 9783110369502
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LAN011000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
Kamil Kaźmierski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.