Lexical Classes in Phonology

Itô, Junko; Mester, Armin

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“…However, in spite of the potentially alternating suffix allomorphs, collection of naturalistic data as well as of elicited survey data reveals that the majority of nickname outputs are disharmonic. I conclude that the Turkish data provides further evidence for Ito and Mester's (2009) key insight that different strata of the lexicon may operate according to different rules/constraint rankings.…”

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Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic

Walter¹

2016

linguistica

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In this study I explore the phonological behavior of the hypocoristic suffix /-oʃ/-/iʃ/ in Turkish. Such a suffix is common to many of the Balkan languages. Turkish differs in its introduction of the front vowel variant of the suffix, presumably to satisfy the vowel harmony requirements in Turkish for backness and rounding in high vowels. However, in spite of the potentially alternating suffix allomorphs, collection of naturalistic data as well as of elicited survey data reveals that the majority of nickname outputs are disharmonic. I conclude that the Turkish data provides further evidence for Ito and Mester’s (2009) key insight that different strata of the lexicon may operate according to different rules/constraint rankings. However, the Turkish data is not consistent with their specific faithfulness-based approach. The hypocoristic lexical stratum exhibits a greater number of vowel harmony violations, but not due to more faithfulness to vowel inputs/underlying forms. Rather, the harmony violations in this stratum are gratuitous – I argue, precisely in order to distinguish this stratum from the lexicon at large. An approach such as Pater’s (2010) indexed constraints model better accommodates this type of lexical variation.

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Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic

Walter¹

2016

linguistica

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“…An analysis of strata of this has been suggested by Chung (1983), and has also been shown quite convincingly for Japanese (Ito & Mester 2008). To help contextualize the frequency of these forms, they make up roughly 17% of bisyllabic native roots (84/501), and are shown to have a lower observed than expected frequency (see Table 1 and Table 2).…”

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Perceptual factors license vocalic contrasts in Chamorro

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2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In Chamorro, a typically neutralized contrast between mid and high vowels is preserved before intervocalic laryngeals. This preservation of contrast is shown to be an instance of patterned exceptionality. Rather than being a result of syllable structure or the typical lowering pattern of high to mid vowels in Chamorro, this exceptionality is instead conditioned by perceptual factors. The phonetic context provided by intervocalic laryngeals provides external cues pertaining to the quality of the preceding vowel, enabling the preservation of underlying contrast. This paper will demonstrate that laryngeals allow more robust acoustic information for perceiving vowel height (F1) when compared to supralaryngeal consonants. The continuation of vocalic F1 into and through the laryngeal provides more cues to the preceding vowel’s quality, allowing an underlying mid-high contrast to surface faithfully in this “exceptional” environment. This supports theories that integrate phonetic information into the synchronic phonology. The licensing of contrast provided by intervocalic laryngeals carries with it both typological and experimental predictions regarding the patterning of laryngeal consonants and the perceptual environment they provide.

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“…There have been a number of other approaches to the formalization of category-specific effects and to how such systems might be learned, e.g Itô & Mester (1999),Alderete (2001),Inkelas & Zoll (2007),Albright (2008),Itô & Mester (2009), Shih & Inkelas (2015,Becker & Gouskova (2016),. etc.Glossa general linguistics a journal ofHammond, Michael, et al 2020.…”

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Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

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Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper we investigate category-specific effects through the lens of Welsh mutation. Smith (2011) and Moreton et al. (2017) show that English distinguishes nouns and proper nouns in an experimental blending task. Here we show that Welsh distinguishes nouns, verbs, personal names, and place names in the mutation system. We demonstrate these effects experimentally in a translation task designed to elicit mutation intuitions and in several corpus studies. In addition, we show that these effects correlate with lexical frequency. Deeper statistical analysis and a review of the English data suggests that frequency is a more explanatory factor than part of speech in both languages. We therefore argue that these category-specific effects can be reduced to lexical frequency effects.

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Lexical Classes in Phonology

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic

Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic

Perceptual factors license vocalic contrasts in Chamorro

Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

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