Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions / / Jennifer L. Smith.

• VerfasserIn: Smith, Jennifer L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) :; illustrations

Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be...

Table of Contents

• 1. Positional augmentation : markedness constraints for prominent positions
• 2. A theory of positional augmentation constraints
• 3. Augmentation of phonetically strong positions
• 4. Augmentation of psycholinguistically strong positions
• 5. Positional augmentation and positional neutralization
• 6. Conclusions, implications, and future directions.