Phonetic variation in Slovak yer and non-yer vowels

Title: Phonetic Variation in Slovak Yer and Non-yer Vowels

We examine the phonetic characteristics of yer and non-yer vowels in Slovak in an effort to improve our understanding of the link between phonological differences and their phonetic realizations. We test the wide-spread assumption of phonological analyses that yer vowels are phonetically identical to their non-yer counterparts with measures of vowel duration, vowel quality and the patterns of c...

Partial Ranking and Alternating Vowels in Polish

1. Introduction The three nominal paradigms in (1) illustrate the fundamental problem posed by Slavic alternating vowels, called yers. In (1b) a full vowel appears throughout the inflectional paradigm; the stem is invariant. In (1c) the stem is also invariant and ends in a consonant cluster regardless of the following inflectional morphology. The paradigm in (1a) contains the yer vowel (underli...

Polish Yers and the Finer Structure of Output - Output Corres - pondence

0. Introduction The fundamental problem posed by Slavic alternating vowels, called yers, is represented by the three nominal paradigms in (1). In (1b) a full vowel appears throughout the inflectional paradigm; the stem is invariant. In (1c) the stem is also invariant and ends in a cluster regardless of the following inflection. The paradigm in (1a) contains the yer (underlined). This vowel is p...

Russian Yers and Prosodic Structure

In this paper I investigate a previously neglected aspect of the phonology of Russian vowel-∅ alternations involving verbal prefixes and prepositions. There is evidence both for and against the notion that prepositions and verbal prefixes — which I will call P, for short — have identical phonological behavior. There are at least two processes that suggest that P forms a unified phonological cat...

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