Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition

Drabikowska, Karolina

Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition

dc.contributor.author	Drabikowska, Karolina
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-17T10:24:02Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-17T10:24:02Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.abstract	The article scrutinises several vowel reduction and lenition phenomena by employing a model of syntax-like structural representations, i.e. Government Phonology 2.0. In contrast to the standard GP model, whereby lenition and vowel reduction can be viewed as shortening, element suppression or status switching, the structural approach employs the procedure of tree pruning with a heavily limited role of melodic annotation. This paper will take a closer look at node removal with special attention to its trajectory. In particular, two basic directionalities are considered: top-down and bottom-up. The former has been proposed to account for vowel reduction whereby the highest positions are deleted retaining the head and potentially its sister. The acquisition of plosives and fricatives points to the latter trajectory, which disposes of nodes closer to the head. However, the choice of positions that are targeted in weak contexts might be also related to the inherently encoded hierarchy of terminal nodes within the constituents in question.
dc.identifier.citation	"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2021, Vol. 7, pp. 19-32
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/lingbaw.13451
dc.identifier.issn	2450-5188
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7081
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	vowel reduction
dc.subject	lenition
dc.subject	structure
dc.subject	tree pruning
dc.subject	phonological representation
dc.title	Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article