E-Book, Englisch, Band 88, 234 Seiten
Kazmierski / Kazmierski Vowel-Shifting in the English Language
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-036609-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
An Evolutionary Account
E-Book, Englisch, Band 88, 234 Seiten
Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
ISBN: 978-3-11-036609-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
Zielgruppe
Scholars as well as Lay Persons interested in Evolutionary Thinking and its Application to Language; Cultural Evolution