Metaphony in the Ticino Canton and phonological features
Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy, Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, ss.127-145, 2016
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2016
- Yayınevi: Walter De Gruyter Gmbh
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.127-145
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The goal of this paper is to describe a (morpho)phonological process attested in the Romance dialect of the Ticino Canton (Switzerland) and to discuss its relevance to theories of phonological features. In this dialect all stressed front vowels are raised stepwise, and stressed back vowels are fronted. The actual nature of the phonological feature(s) involved is not obvious and provides relevant material to compare the predictions of different feature theories. Whereas standard binary features represent Ticino metaphony as the accidental combination of various unrelated processes, feature systems representing vowel height as a multivalued feature, as well as the phonological primes of Dependency/ Particle/Government Phonology, can describe its alternations as a uniform process.