出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：This paper examines two issues concerning vowel place representation: what features are required and how these features come to be specified. The claim is made that back vowels are marked relative to non-back vowels and that front vowels are marked relative to central vowels. To capture these contrasts, vowels require only two place features phonologically, Coronal and the feature called Peripheral. In a system with a central and a front vowel at a height, the central vowel is unmarked for place and the front vowel is Coronal; in a system with a front vowel and no central vowel at a height, the front vowel is phonologically unmarked for place. Evidence is drawn from trigger and target asymmetries; vowel deletion, diphthongization, and coalescence; existing contrasts in inventories; markedness; consonant-vowel interactions; and phonetic variation in vowel quality. The data suggest relatively abstract phonological representations that are determined based on knowledge of contrasts in an inventory coupled with a hierarchy that determines the order in which features are marked.
关键词：Place of Articulation;Vowels;Coronal;Peripheral
