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Vowel-Shifting in the English Language
An Evolutionary Account
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Kamil Kaźmierski
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
About this book
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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Kamil Kaźmierski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
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eBook published on:
March 10, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9783110366099
Hardcover published on:
February 26, 2015
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110369502
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Front matter:
12
Main content:
222
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars as well as Lay Persons interested in Evolutionary Thinking and its Application to Language; Cultural Evolution
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