Interactions of Vowel Quality and Prosody in East Slavic - Janina Mołczanow
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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
The chapter develops an analysis of vowel reduction in unstressed positions not immediately preceding stressed syllables and hence not affected by the presence of tone. The analysis is based on the model of prominence reduction developed by Crosswhite (2001), and is formalized in terms of the markedness constraints regulating sonority of prosodic heads and non-heads proposed by de Lacy (2006).