ABSTRACT

First published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this work looks at the analysis of elision directionaility and the correlation between the active value of (ATR) in a language and the language's vowel inventory.  The paper develops the idea of ATR Predictability.

chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 2|77 pages

Vowel Elision

chapter Chapter 3|20 pages

Coalescence and Feature-Sensitive Elision

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

Height Coalescence

chapter Chapter 6|37 pages

An Analysis of Height Coalescence