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  1. Vowel-Shifting in the English Language
    An Evolutionary Account
    Autor*in: Kazmierski, Kamil
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    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,... mehr

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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. Kamil Ka?mierski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland. 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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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110369502
    RVK Klassifikation: HE 211
    Schriftenreihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; v.88
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    Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Research question; 1.2 Theoretical framework; 1.3 General hypothesis; 1.4 Assumptions in need of verification and specific hypotheses; 1.5 Goals; 2 Informal outline; 3 Data and previous accounts; 3.1 An overview of vowel chain shifts in English; 3.1.1 The Great Vowel Shift; 3.1.2 The Short Vowel Shift; 3.1.3 Contemporary vowel shifts; 3.2 Study 1: English has become a vowel shifting language; 3.2.1 Charting vocalic changes; 3.2.2 Analysis; 3.3 The co-evolution of rhythm and vowels; 3.3.1 The reduction and loss of unstressed vowels

    3.3.2 Rhythm-based typology: on stress-timing and syllabletiming3.3.3 Typological perspective on vowel shifting; 3.3.4 A unified perspective; 3.4 Previous approaches to sound change (and vowel shifting); 3.4.1 The Neogrammarians; 3.4.2 The structuralist/functionalist approach; 3.4.3 Generative phonology; 3.4.4 Exemplar-based phonology; 3.4.5 Summary; 4 Theoretical framework; 4.1 Evolutionary linguistics; 4.2 Optimality Theory; 4.2.1 Introduction; 4.2.2 The architecture of Optimality Theory; 4.2.3 Language change in Optimality Theory

    4.3 Formalizing evolutionary linguistics in Optimality Theory4.3.1 Some modifications to mainstream Optimality Theory stemming from its combination with evolutionary linguistics; 4.3.2 Further advantages to Optimality Theory; 5 The full account; 5.1 Old English; 5.1.1 Stress assignment in Old English; 5.1.2 Fixed lexical stress as a factor enhancing the stress-timing of English through enabling the entrenchment of segmental effects of stress; 5.1.3 Fixed lexical stress as a factor undermining the stress-timing of English though causing stress clashes; 5.2 Middle English

    5.2.1 Stress assignment in Middle Engslih grammatical stress5.2.2 Avoidance of stress clashes and lapses; 5.2.3 Stress assignment in Middle English lexical stress; 5.2.4 Summary; 5.3 Early Modern English; 5.3.1 The replacement of length with tenseness; 5.3.2 The setting off of the Great Vowel Shift; 5.4 Present-day English; 5.4.1 The changing roles of vowel duration and vowel quality for the expression of phonological contrasts; 5.4.2 Study 2a: Quality is the main expression of vocalic contrasts in Present-day English

    5.4.3 Study 2b: Qualitative variation is not predictable from durational variation in Present-day English5.4.4 A brief cross-varietal comparison; 5.5 Summary; 6 Concluding remarks; 6.1 Summary; 6.2 Taking stock of a few general insights; 6.3 Some open questions; Appendix 1: Comparison to other languages; 7.1 Romance; 7.2 Icelandic; Appendix 2: Chart of vocalic changes; Appendix 3: Materials used for recordings; References; Index