Positional Faithfulness systems dynamics 500 illustrations

500 illustrations

Chapters systematically map the key issues

overcoming inhibitors of creativity

or whether there is one 'truth' at all

Can there be a flaneuse

Positional Faithfulness systems dynamics 500 illustrationsFirst published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable