Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin : an optimality theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C
A central claim of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993a) is that phonological variation can be modeled through the variable ranking of universal constraints. In this thesis, I test this claim by examining variation in the tongue root vowel harmony system in a nu...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6658 |