Morphemic harmony as featural correspondence

Finley, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.009

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“…In the analysis of Lena, lexically-indexed licensing constraints are used to restrict the triggers of metaphony to inflectional suffixes, and lexically indexed faithfulness constraints are used to block vowel raising in stems that exceptionally resist metaphony. Alternative analyses discussed at the end of Chapter 6 include Hualde (1989), which focuses on the metrical aspect of the pattern, and Finley (2009), which pursues the intuition that metaphony is the realization of morphemes that trigger it. The alternatives offer plausible formal accounts of Lena metaphony that highlight different aspects of the pattern and capitalize on different intuitions.…”

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Rachel Walker, Vowel patterns in language (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 130). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x+356.

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J. Ling.

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into the Response Buffer, where they are held temporarily in a state that allows for self-monitoring, including evaluation as to how well they correspond to the optimal output. On the basis of less-than-optimal output patterns, the child can alter weights in the neural network to improve subsequent performance. However, if these sub-symbolic output patterns are qualitatively different from the symbolic input patterns, it is not clear how the learner can evaluate their adequacy. Smith's discussion is interesting, but far too abbreviated. Perhaps the intent was to raise issues for discussion, rather than to provide any compelling answers, and if so, the discussion is successful.Overall, this book is a dense read but well worth it. The database of Zak's phonological development is interesting and detailed, and will undoubtedly be mined by others. The discussion of theory is interesting but terse ; terms are not defined, and ultimately it is difficult to decide whether Smith's arguments are compelling. Despite these weaknesses, the book has many strengths, and it is a worthwhile read. It will undoubtedly attract the same sort of attention as Smith's previous book has had over the past forty years.

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2012

J. Ling.

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“…) and that morpheme-specific phonological constraints or constructions are active for the exceptional non-hosts (e.g. Alderete, 2001;Pater, 2009;Finley, 2009). In contrast, I argue for a unified representational account where a simple difference in the representation of the /jo/ro/ and exceptional non-host morphemes predicts their exceptional behaviour from the regular phonology independently motivated for MIG.…”

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“…One possible account for exceptionality in this sense is the assumption of morpheme-specific phonological constraints (e.g. Alderete, 2001;Pater, 2009;Finley, 2009) or phonological co-grammars (e.g. Orgun, 1996;Inkelas & Zoll, 2005: The morpheme behaves differently because it is subject to a different phonology.…”

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Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec

Zimmermann

2018

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The assumption of Gradient Symbolic Representations (Smolensky & Goldrick 2016; Rosen 2016) allows a unified account of lexical exceptions to phonological generalizations or processes. It states that phonological elements can have different degrees of presence in an underlying representation, expressed as numerical activities. In this paper, I strengthen the argument for Gradient Symbolic Representations and provide a case study of two seemingly unrelated exceptions in the tonal phonology of San Miguel el Grande Mixtec that receive a unified explanation under the assumption of gradient activity. In addition, I argue for a modification of the original Gradient Symbolic Representation assumption and propose the existence of gradient activity in the output. This assumption allows to predict markedness-driven exceptionality patterns that remain unexplained in the original proposal.

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“…Akinlabi (1996;see also Finley 2009 andWolf 2005) used alignment constraints in which floating features had to be realised onto the stem to account for what Finley (2009) calls morphemic harmony (see also Mascaró 2016).…”

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Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony

Torres-Tamarit

Linke

Vanrell

2016

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper develops an analysis of two opaque interactions in Campidanian Sardinian that involve metaphony and two other processes, vowel merger in the suffixal domain and word-final vowel epenthesis. The analysis is developed within the formalism of Turbidity Theory, a model assuming containment, combined with privative features, maximal economy in the representation of segments and relativized scope. The basic idea is that metaphony is computed synchronically as a non-local licensing condition of a feature {high} only if it is underlyingly present. We discuss, on the one hand, cases of non-application of metaphony induced by a subset of high vowel inflectional suffixes. We show that underapplication of metaphony in Campidanian Sardinian is due to insertion of a feature {high} in this set of non-low suffixes lacking {high} underlyingly, which does not need to be licensed as it is not lexical. On the other hand, metaphony also underapplies in the presence of epenthesized high vowels, because their feature {high} is again inserted since these vowels have no correspondent in the input. This paper presents an account that allows the implementation of the interacting processes such as metaphony, vowel merger and word-final vowel epenthesis into one paral- lel OT computation. With the help of work on inventory structure, the opaquely interacting processes can be modelled without relying on rule ordering.

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Morphemic harmony as featural correspondence

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References 38 publications

Rachel Walker, Vowel patterns in language (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 130). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x+356.

Rachel Walker, Vowel patterns in language (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 130). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x+356.

Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec

Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony

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