Characterizing the natural order of application of phonological rules

Brink, Daniel

doi:10.1016/0024-3841(74)90076-x

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“…3. Brink (1974) suggests that Dutch zingt, normally pronounced [zirjt], undergoes both a &-epenthesis (which he motivates by reference to a proposed derivation /konirj-tJ3/->konin-k-tja->[koninkJ3]) and a ^-deletion (illustrated by /zink-t/->[zirjt]), so that its derivation is: /zirj-t/->zirj-k-t-»[zint]; I would be inclined to favour an analysis in which the k of [koninkja] was derived via assimilation and not by insertion, with the lexical representation of -tjd (the diminutive suffix) being something like C*j$, where C* becomes homorganic phonetic shapes, or a theory of syntax which recognized only a surface level. The proposals I know of for theories along these lines seem to me to be demonstrably inadequate, but that is not my topic here.…”

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The Duke of York gambit

Pullum

1976

J. Ling.

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A Duke who has not been satisfactorily identified with any historical figure is lampooned in a traditional rhyme (believed to have been directed originally at the King of France) as follows:The Grand Old Duke of YorkHe had ten thousand menHe marched them up a great high hillAnd he marched them down again.The implication is that this was incompetent and self-defeating activity on his part. Linguists very frequently seem to give evidence of a tacitly held belief that there is similarly something inept and risible about a linguistic analysis which determines that certain structures are assigned a derivation of the general form A→B→A, that is a derivation in which an underlying representation (or some nonultimate remote representation) is mapped on to an intermediate form distinct from it, and then on to a surface (or other superficial) representation which is identical with the earlier stage.

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