Positional Faithfulness: An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries

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.

• | Author: Jill N. Beckman
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 081533348X
• | ISBN-13: 9780815333487