Contrastive hierarchies, privative features, and Portuguese vowels

Contrastive hierarchies, privative features, and Portuguese vowels

Dresher’s (2009) Contrastive hierarchy theory (CHT) is intended to provide a unified account of both sides of phonological primes: contrastivity and behaviour. This article explores the point and the possibility of extending CHT, which is based on binary features, to a system of monovalent elements...

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Main Author: Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade do Porto 2011-01-01
Series:Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto
Subjects:
Phonological primitives
feature geometry
contrastive hierarchy
monovalent features
vowel systems
Portuguese phonology.
Online Access:http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/9913.pdf

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