Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory

By K. Crosswhite. 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Weak Triggers in Vowel Harmony (2005, background): “A case involving vowel height is found in the Native American language, Luiseño, in which mid vowels raise to high in unstressed syllables (Munro and Benson 1973, Crosswhite 1999).”
• Markedness conflation in Optimality Theory (2004, background): “There is no * /x constraint that outranks ALIGNFT-R and favours [ı́] over [ ], so candidate (29a.i) fatally violates 9 Precedent for the constraints in (28) is found in Crosswhite (1999), though they are not used to produce sonority-driven stress in that work.”