The Analysis of Shona Vowel Assimilation in Government Phonology
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This paper aims to explore phonological phenomenon in Shona, a Bantu language of Zimbabwe, in terms of Government Theory (Kaye, Lowenstamm & Vergnaud, 1985, 1990, henceforth KLV). In Shona, the process of vowel height assimilation is shown regularly, turning a high suffixal vowel into a mid one when preceded by a mid vowel. This paper investigates the phenomenon of Shona in Government approach, where syllables are bound together based on government relations. In the first part of the paper, the outline of theoretical assumptions on Government Theory is described, and some basic principles and representations are explicated. In order to have an explicit representational system for segments, this paper adopts the Government Theory based on segmental complexity proposed by Harris (1990). Focusing on the process of Shona vowel assimilation with relevant examples, the paper centers on analyzing the phenomenon in Shona within this framework. Since some problems are raised in the analysis within Government Theory, I propose to analyze the phenomenon of Shona vowel assimilation in Extended Government Phonology (Park, 1996; Park & Michaels, 1997), which extends lexical representations in the Government framework along the lines of the Markedness Theory in the Syllable Structure approach.
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This paper aims to explore phonological phenomenon in Shona, a Bantu language of Zimbabwe, in terms of Government Theory (Kaye, Lowenstamm & Vergnaud, 1985, 1990, henceforth KLV). In Shona, the process of vowel height assimilation is shown regularly, turning a high suffixal vowel into a mid one when preceded by a mid vowel. This paper investigates the phenomenon of Shona in Government approach, where syllables are bound together based on government relations. In the first part of the paper, the outline of theoretical assumptions on Government Theory is described, and some basic principles and representations are explicated. In order to have an explicit representational system for segments, this paper adopts the Government Theory based on segmental complexity proposed by Harris (1990). Focusing on the process of Shona vowel assimilation with relevant examples, the paper centers on analyzing the phenomenon in Shona within this framework. Since some problems are raised in the analysis within Government Theory, I propose to analyze the phenomenon of Shona vowel assimilation in Extended Government Phonology (Park, 1996; Park & Michaels, 1997), which extends lexical representations in the Government framework along the lines of the Markedness Theory in the Syllable Structure approach.
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