Interactions of Vowel Quality and Prosody in East Slavic - Janina Mołczanow
Theoretical Background
Interactions of Vowel Quality and Prosody in East Slavic - Janina Mołczanow
Janina Mołczanow [+]
University of Warsaw
Janina Mołczanow is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw.
Description
This chapter presents the model of tone-sonority interaction which is employed in the analyses of vocalic neutralisation patterns attested in East Slavic. I suggest that the interaction between tone and vowel quality is regulated by a set of constraints derived through the harmonic alignment of the sonority scale with the tonal prominence scale.