Positional Neutralization - Linguistics - University of California ...

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
1.1. Phonetics and phonology in recent approaches to positional neutralization 4
1.1.1. Pure Prominence 5
1.1.1.1. Phonetic arbitrariness in Pure Prominence models 9
1.1.2. Phonetically-driven Phonology 11
1.1.3. Integrated Phonetics and Phonology 12
1.1.4. Neo-Grounded Phonology 13
1.2. Goals 14
1.3. Phonetics and Phonology in the Phonologization Approach 16
1.4. Categories, neutralization and the phonologization process 20
1.5. Organization 29
Chapter 2. Stressed syllables and unstressed vowel reduction 34
2.1. Unstressed vowel reduction: patterns of neutralization 36
2.1.1. Vowel height contrasts 37
2.1.2. Nasalization 49
2.1.3. Quantity 50
2.2. The Phonetics of Vowel Reduction 53
2.3. Case Studies 58
2.3.1. The phonologization of phonetic vowel reduction: Bulgarian 58
2.3.2. Categorical vowel reduction: Belorussian 66
2.3.3. A mixed system: Brazilian Portuguese 68
2.4. A UG-based approach to UVR typology: Crosswhite (2001) 73
2.5. Vowel reduction in Russian 88
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