Vowel-Shifting in the English Language : : An Evolutionary Account / / Kamil Kaźmierski.

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 replacem...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 88
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