UA12/2/78 Newsletter

Newsletter created by and about Kappa Sigma fraternity in 1974

The evolution of medieval /ü/ and its dialectal variation

The medieval high, front, round vowel /ü/ was phonetically realized in Greek until the 10th century A.D. After that time a sound change took place, resulting in the phonetic realization of underlying /ü/ with two variants, namely as [i] in most dialects and as [u] in the dialects of Old Athenian Complex. We claim that the underlying /ü/ could not be realized anymore due to a phonological change that resulted in the promotion of the markedness constraint *[+front, +round], which is now undominated and forbids the realization of front, rounded vowels in the Greek phonological system. The variation among the output vowels [i] and [u] can be accounted for on the basis of co-phonologies or multiple grammars, namely by a single ranking where a set of unranked constraints obtain, giving multiple outputs. In the course of language evolution, however, it is the crucial ranking of the one constraint over the other that forces the activation of a distinct output vowel in every dialectal group

UA12/2/10 Delta Gamma Chatter

Newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta sorority in 1987

UA12/2/10 Kay Dee Konnection

Calendar / newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta in 1988

UA12/2/10 Delta Gamma Chatter

Newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta sorority in 1990

UA12/2/78 The Messenger, Vol. 1

Newsletter created by and about Kappa Sigma fraternity in 1986

UA12/2/10 Kappa Delta Konnection

Monthly calendar/newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta sorority in 1989

UA12/2/10 Kay Dee Konnection

Calendar / newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta sorority in 1987

Instances of vowel assimilation in the Cretan dialect

This study examines the effect of vowel assimilation in the dialectal realizations of western Crete. The corpus is based on data drawn from written sources as well as naturalistic data. The analysis has shown that the assimilation is mostly sonority driven, following largely the pattern attested in southern Greece; the trigger of assimilation is the most sonorous (un)stressed vowel within the prosodic word and targets a preceding unstressed vowel, although stressed targets are also attested. The assimilation is regressive, strictly local and may be blocked by intervening Labials and Dorsals which spread their round or back feature respectively to the target vowel. Coronal sonorants may also block total assimilation causing only lowering, due to the V-C interaction too

UA12/2/10 Kappa Delta Konnection

Calendar / newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta sorority in 1989