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Volume 67: Issue 1
Tense? (Re)lax!
A new formalisation for a controversial contrast
Author:
Markus A. Pöchtrager University of Vienna markus.poechtrager@univie.ac.at

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Pages:
53–71
Online Publication Date:
Mar 2020
Publication Date:
01 Mar 2020
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2020.00005
Keywords:
English; tense; lax; height; vowel system; Government Phonology 2.0
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Abstract

This article looks at what is referred to as the tense/lax contrast in English and proposes that members of the two sets of vowel have the same basic structure but differ in how part of that structure is made use of by its neighbours. The proposal forms part of a general theory of the representation of vowel height within the framework of Government Phonology 2.0.

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