Polish palatalization in derivational optimality theory

Rubach, Jerzy

doi:10.1016/s0024-3841(02)00054-2

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“…In addition, Ś wieciń ski (2013) carried out a detailed study of so-called Surface Palatalization (cf. Rubach, 2003) in Polish. He found that sequences such as /dj/ in Polish odjechać 'leave' showed acoustic evidence of asynchronous articulation.…”

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On the evolution of prosodic boundaries – Parameter settings for Polish and English

Schwartz

2016

Lingua

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On the evolution of prosodic boundaries – Parameter settings for Polish and English

Schwartz

2016

Lingua

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“…Therefore, we need a constraint that ensures the hardening of the coronal stridents. As pointed out in Rubach (2003) The analysis in (11) is wrong. The application of HARD removed the [−back] feature on the stem-final //č'//, which is now [+back].…”

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Opaque Allomorphy in OT: Candidate Chains vs. Derivational Optimality Theory

Rydzewski

2010

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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This article investigates the opacity in allomorphic processes in the masculine nominative plural of Polish nouns. It is shown that the discussed cases of allomorphy are opaque. Subsequently, it is examined whether Optimality Theory can account for the opacity in the Polish data and concluded that parallel evaluation is unable to handle the relevant examples. Next, the problem is reanalyzed within the theory of candidate chains in order to determine whether the theory is capable of providing a non-derivational account. However, this version of Optimality Theory fails to achieve the attested output. It is concluded that candidate chains are unable to handle the opaque generalizations. Finally, the non-derivational account is juxtaposed with Derivational Optimality Theory in order to prove that Optimality Theory must admit derivational levels.KEYWORDS: Optimality Theory; Polish phonology; opacity; candidate chains; allomorphy. IntroductionOptimality Theory Smolensky 1993, 2004;and McCarthy and Prince 1995) offers new insight into allomorphy processes. Given the universality principle, allomorphs, whose distribution is language-specific, are evaluated by universal constraints. The idea of universality dispenses with allomorphy rules for the sake of the aforementioned constraints. Nevertheless, the input-output relation of Optimality Theory (henceforth, OT) proves to be an inadequate mechanism for opaque alternations. OT cannot handle the cases which require an insight into the intermediate stages of evaluation. Thus, in order to maintain a parallelism in OT, various subtheories were proposed. Candidate chains (McCarthy 2007) circumvents the necessity for a derivational step by employing an intermediate stage in a fully parallel evaluation. However, it is shown that the subtheory, which strongly relies on faithfulness violations, is unable to tackle the problematic allomorphs as they do not incur the necessary violations of faithfulness.

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“…Palatalization processes have been crucial in developing and testing representational and computational phonological models (Clements 1991, Rubach 2003, Padgett 1995, Baker 2004, Bateman 2007, Youssef 2013.…”

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The Naturalness of Palatalization

Krämer

Urek

2016

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Section headingPalatalization is commonly attested in the languages of the world, and has received considerable attention in the literature over the years.However, it is by no means clear which processes count as palatalization phonologically or if the term refers to one or several phenomena. Palatalization processes exhibit great variation within and across languages, regarding the triggers of the process, the targets, and the output of the process. Most studies focus on a certain palatalization process in a specific language. Nevertheless, typological surveys have revealed some intriguing tendencies. Among these are apparently universal implicational relations that have been shown to hold among palatalization triggers and targets. For instance, survey results indicate that if labials undergo palatalization, so do coronals and dorsals (Bhat 1978, Chen 1973, Bateman 2007. If lower front vocoids trigger palatalization, so do higher front vocoids, and if non-front high vocoids act as triggers, so do front high vocoids (Bateman 2007, Kochetov 2011. In addition, coronals tend to be palatalized by high vocoids, while dorsals tend to be palatalized by front vocoids (Bhat 1978, Kochetov 2011.Outputs of palatalization show a range of variation. The targeted segment either acquires a secondary palatal place of articulation or shifts the primary place of articulation closer to the palatal region. Interestingly, changes in the primary place of articulation are often accompanied by spirantization. In addition, the change of manner without the change of place is also attested (Bhat 1978, Bateman 2007.Theoretical approaches to palatalization face a considerable challenge of characterizing languagespecific patterns in addition to capturing cross-linguistic tendencies and variability. Palatalization processes have been crucial in developing and testing representational and computational phonological models (Clements

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Polish palatalization in derivational optimality theory

Cited by 60 publications

References 9 publications

On the evolution of prosodic boundaries – Parameter settings for Polish and English

On the evolution of prosodic boundaries – Parameter settings for Polish and English

Opaque Allomorphy in OT: Candidate Chains vs. Derivational Optimality Theory

The Naturalness of Palatalization

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