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By Jennifer L. Smith

Phonologically fashionable or "strong" positions are popular for his or her skill to withstand positional neutralization techniques comparable to vowel relief or position assimilation. even if, there also are situations of neutralization that impact purely robust positions, as whilst under pressure syllables has to be heavy, default rigidity is inserted into roots, or word-initial onsets needs to be low in sonority. during this booklet, Jennifer Smith exhibits that phonological strategies particular to powerful positions are precise from these thinking about vintage positional neutralization results simply because they continuously serve to enhance the robust place with a perceptually salient attribute. officially, positional augmentation results are modeled through markedness constraints relativized to robust positions. simply because positional augmentation constraints are topic to yes important regulations, as noticeable of their connection to perceptual salience, this research has implications for the connection among sensible grounding and phonological theory.

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