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Vowel-Shifting in the English Language - An Evolutionary Account (Hardcover, Digital original) Loot Price: R3,856

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Vowel-Shifting in the English Language - An Evolutionary Account (Hardcover, Digital original): Kamil Kazmierski

Vowel-Shifting in the English Language - An Evolutionary Account (Hardcover, Digital original)

Kamil Kazmierski

Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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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.

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Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Kamil Kazmierski
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-036950-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech) Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	3-11-036950-8
Barcode:	9783110369502