Modeling gradient processes in Polabian vowel chain shifting and blocking
| Autor: | Roslyn Burns |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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West Slavic languages 050101 languages & linguistics Linguistics and Language Velarization Palatalization (sound change) Speech recognition 05 social sciences 01 natural sciences Language and Linguistics Acoustic space Vowel Harmonic Grammar 0103 physical sciences Chain shift 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 010301 acoustics Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Historical Linguistics. 11:102-142 |
| ISSN: | 2210-2124 2210-2116 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/jhl.18021.bur |
| Popis: | This paper presents an analysis of two interacting sound changes in the extinct West Slavic language Polabian. Polabian is known to have two types of vowel innovations: (i) the incorporation of acoustic properties from consonant secondary co-articulations (either palatalization or velarization) and (ii) a systematic rotation of vowels (Timberlake 1995). This paper argues that the innovation in (ii) is a vowel chain shift similar to those analyzed in Labov (1994). Unlike the other languages surveyed in Labov (1994), Polabian has phonologically predictable exceptions to the general direction of vowel movement through the acoustic space. Unlike previous work on Polabian, this paper proposes that the vowel chain shift operated simultaneously with the innovation in (i) resulting in phonologically predictable exceptions. This paper tests Timberlake’s (1995) proposal and the current proposal in a Harmonic Grammar (Flemming 2001) which uses Purcell’s (1979) acoustic data from Russian as a proxy. The model only captures the correct distribution of vowel reflexes under the assumption that co-articulatory based innovations and vowel chain shifting were active at the same time. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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