Abstract
dc:description.abstract(cont.) Chapter 4 turns to microvariation within the (dis)harmony system of a single language, examining transparency variation in Hungarian front vowels, and distance-based variation in Hungarian neutral vowel sequences, and in the dissimilative voicing of Embu prefixes. The proposal is that variation results from structural ambiguity within analytic possibilities in the hypothesis space developed in Chapters 1-3. When a configuration encountered early in the learning sequence is compatible with multiple (dis)harmony policies (i.e. parametric settings of harmony grammars), the speaker may choose among these, resulting in variation on those later-learned forms for which the policies diverge in their output.
Degree
thesis:*- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2005
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Nevins, Andrew
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Morris Halle.
Subjects
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- M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28920
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/28920