First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable features in determining the outcome of harmony. This volume of research outlines the authirs discoveries.
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CHAPTER 1 Aspects of Positional Faithfulness Theory CHAPTER 2 Root-Initial Faithfulness CHAPTER 3 Faithfulness in Stressed Syllables CHAPTER 4 Root Faithfulness CHAPTER 5 Prominence Maximization
