Edge of constituent effects in Polish

Gradient phonotactic acceptability a case study from Slovak

“…We fed both models with the same segment inventory and feature matrix. 18 The feature matrix we used is based on Pauliny (1979) and Rubach (1993) with smaller changes. The most important change, and the least standard feature matrix, is provided for [v].…”

“…The only work focusing on the syllable structure of Slovak in a generative framework is Rubach (1993). Syllabification in Slovak according to him obeys universal principles like the Sonority Sequencing Generalization and language-specific principles like the Obstruent Sequencing Principle, which says that "with obstruents there is no requirement for sonority distance" (op.cit., 213).…”

Contextual Constraints on Geminates: The Case of Polish

“…There are examples of both 'true' geminates, which are underlyingly long (mostly borrowings from other languages), and of 'fake' geminates, which are derived through certain morphological processes (for discussion of geminates in Polish see e.g. Zajda 1977, Rubach 1986, Rubach and Booij 1990, Sawicka 1995, Thurgood 2002.…”

“…Whenever there is the potential to create a non-intervocalic geminate in Polish (e.g., via affixation), one of the consonants of the would-be geminate is deleted (Rubach and Booij 1990), as shown in (7)-(10). I refer to this deletion process here as degemination.…”

“…Bethin 1992). Note that monoconsonantal proclitics differ from other clitics in that they cannot be syllabified separately from its host (Rubach and Booij 1990, Sawicka 1995, Rochoń 2000. This is in contrast to longer proclitics, as in (10), in which the final consonant is never resyllabified to form part of an onset but always remains in coda position.…”