<i>Austronesian nasal substitution and other NC effects</i>

Pater, Joe

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“…The items in which the target consonants come after nasal consonants were avoided because nasals encourage voicing-and may hinder devoicing-in the following consonants (Hayes and Stivers, 1995;Pater, 1999 …”

Section: Stimulimentioning

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Aspects of Japanese loanword devoicing

Kawahara

2011

J East Asian Linguist

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Nishimura (2003) first pointed out that in Japanese loanwords, voiced geminates devoice optionally when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent i.e. when they violate OCP(voice) (e.g. /baggu/ → [bakku] 'bag'). This devoicing of geminates has been used to make several theoretical claims in the recent phonological literature. However, these claims have so far largely been based on intuition-based data provided by Nishimura (2003) and Kawahara (2006). Kawahara (in press) addressed this problem by conducting a rating study. The first aim of this study, building on Kawahara (in press), is to further support the empirical foundation of these theoretical claims by way of a large-scale rating study. The current study shows that (i) the OCP and geminacy each affect naturalness rating of devoicing, and (ii) that there is nevertheless something special about the combination of the OCP and geminacy.The second aim is to test an assumption behind the recent literature on this phenomenon.The assumption is that this devoicing pattern is monolithic-i.e. all voiced geminates uniformly undergo devoicing in a certain phonological environment. The current experiment shows that this assumption is too simplistic. In particular it shows (i) speakers rate the devoicing of affricates as natural as that of stops, (ii) speakers find devoicing of items that merge with other lexical items less natural, (iii) speakers rate devoicing as more natural when there are multiple triggers, (iv) speakers find devoicing of [dd] more natural than that of [gg], and (v) speakers find devoicing of more frequent items more natural.2

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Section: Stimulimentioning

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Aspects of Japanese loanword devoicing

Kawahara

2011

J East Asian Linguist

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“…I argue that the behavior of geminates in Polish constitutes a classic case of a conspiracy (Kisseberth 1970, Pater 1999. Two processes -deletion and epenthesisconspire to avoid non-intervocalic geminates.…”

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Contextual Constraints on Geminates: The Case of Polish

Pająk¹

2009

BLS

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“…Following Pater's (1999) analysis of nasal substitution in Indonesian, I attribute the higher rate of substitution on voiceless-initial stems to a constraint *NC , which forbids a sequence of a nasal and a voiceless obstruent:…”

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“…Starting with *NC , unlike in Malay/Indonesian (Pater 1999), it clearly cannot be the driving constraint for Tagalog nasal substitution, because it applies to both voiced and voiceless obstruents.…”

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A model of lexical variation and the grammar with application to Tagalog nasal substitution

Zuraw

2010

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper presents a case of patterned exceptionality. The case is Tagalog nasal substitution, a phenomenon in which a prefix-final nasal fuses with a steminitial obstruent. The rule is variable on a word-by-word basis, but its distribution is phonologically patterned, as shown through dictionary and corpus data. Speakers appear to have implicit knowledge of the patterning, as shown through experimental data and loan adaptation. A grammar is proposed that reconciles the primacy of lexical information with regularities in the distribution of the rule. Morphologically complex words are allowed to have their own lexical entries, whose use is preferred to on-the-fly morphological concatenation. The grammar contains lowerranked markedness constraints that govern the behavior of novel words. Faithfulness for lexicalized full words is ranked high, so that an established word will have a stable pronunciation. But when a word is newly coined through affixation, the outcome varies according the lexical trends. A crucial aspect of the proposal is that the ranking of the "subterranean" markedness constraints can be learned despite training data in which all words are pronounced faithfully, using Boersma's (1997Boersma's ( , 1998 Gradual learning algorithm. The paper also shows, by summarizing the rule's behavior in related languages, that the same constraints, in different rankings, seem to be at work even in languages reported to lack variation.

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Austronesian nasal substitution and other NC effects

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Aspects of Japanese loanword devoicing

Aspects of Japanese loanword devoicing

Contextual Constraints on Geminates: The Case of Polish

A model of lexical variation and the grammar with application to Tagalog nasal substitution

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