Smith, Jennifer L., 1971-

Phonological augmentation in prominent positions / Jennifer L. Smith. - New York : Routledge, 2005. - xii, 311 p. ; 24 cm. - Outstanding dissertations in linguistics .

Rev. version of the author's dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and indexes.

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Positional Augmentation: Markedness Constraints for Prominent Positions Chapter 2: A Theory of Positional Augmentation Constraints Chapter 3: Augmentation of Phonetically Strong Positions Chapter 4: Augmentation of Psycholinguistically Strong Positions Chapter 5: Positional Augmentation and Positional Neutralization Chapter 6: Conclusions, Implications, and Future Directions Bibliography Index

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Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.
Psycholinguistics.
Optimality theory (Linguistics)

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