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'... essential reading for all phonologists.' Joe Pater, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst '... the most thorough typological survey of prominence-based vowel patterns available ...' Laura J. Downing, ZAS Berlin Endorsements: ...essential reading for all phonologists. Joe Pater, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ... the most thorough typological survey of prominence-based vowel patterns available ... Laura J. Downing, ZAS, Berlin Walker's monograph is a significant contribution to our understanding of patterns involving vowels. The novel contribution is the idea that the same basic mechanism, prominence-based licensing, is involved in many vowel patterns. In terms of Optimality Theory, this monograph provides one of the best worked-out analyses of a single phenomenon across many languages. The detailed and software-verified factorial typology makes strong predictions about what kind of patterns are attested, predictions which are confirmed in the numerous case studies provided. Phonology

'... essential reading for all phonologists.' Joe Pater, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst '... the most thorough typological survey of prominence-based vowel patterns available ...' Laura J. Downing, ZAS Berlin

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Rachel Walker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects (2000), and has contributed numerous articles to journals and books.

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