HARMONIC PHONOLOGY WITHIN ONE LANGUAGE: AN ANALYSIS OF YIDINY
| dc.contributor.advisor | Inkelas, Sharon | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kirchner, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.department | Linguistics | |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-26T18:17:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-26T18:17:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis attempts to implement and flesh out Prince and Smolensky's (1991) proposal for a declarative, multi-stratal model of phonology based on the quasi-connectionist notion of maximization of phonological "harmony" or well-formedness (henceforth "Harmonic Phonology"), applying this approach to a detailed analysis of the phonology of Yidiny, a language of North-Eastern Australia. In Harmonic Phonology, the phonological component of the grammar consists of a set of universal markedness principles (e.g. "prefer non-low back vowel to be rounded," or "prefer syllable to have onset"). Cross-linguistic variation is accounted for solely in terms of the ranking of such markedness statements: there are no language-specific rules or constraints. The thesis uses this framework to account for the structure of Yidiny's phoneme inventory, syllable template, and stress system, as well as a variety of alternations, including odd-syllable apocope and penultimate vowel lengthening, and demonstrates the superiority of such an analysis as compared to a rule-based account of the same phenomena. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/nobp-x0ij | |
| dc.identifier.other | ILLiad # 1229348 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/24746 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.title | HARMONIC PHONOLOGY WITHIN ONE LANGUAGE: AN ANALYSIS OF YIDINY | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |