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dc.contributor.authorIosad, Pavel
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-19T07:37:42Z
dc.date.available2011-09-19T07:37:42Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractMuch recent work concentrates on the role of sonority in the phenomenon of vowel reduction, capitalizing on the two facts that reduction involves raising and/or shortening and that higher vowels and schwa are normally interpreted as having low sonority. This paper presents a different approach to vowel reduction in Standard Russian. It is proposed that the apparent sonority-driven effects in Russian are epiphenomenal. In particular, reduction to schwa is outside of the domain of phonological computation in Russian, being an artifact of reduced duration. Other types of neutralization arising in vowel reduction are potentially amenable to a sonority-based analysis, but I argue that current approaches to sonority-driven reduction suffer from representational shortcomings. When these shortcomings are rectified, however, sonority is unnecessary as an explicit factor in vowel reduction: standard markedness mechanisms are enough to explain the data.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Linguistics, FirstView Article (2012)
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 839909
dc.identifier.issn0022-2267
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/3605
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_3321
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Russisk språk: 028en
dc.titleVowel reduction in Russian: no phonetics in phonologyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen
dc.typePeer revieweden


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