Positional faithfulness, positional neutralisation and Shona vowel harmony

Beckman, Jill N.

doi:10.1017/s0952675797003308

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“…The dispreference against devoicing of word-initial singletons may have its roots in the psycholinguistic prominence of initial positions (Hawkins & Cutler, 1988;Horowitz et al, 1969Horowitz et al, , 1968Nooteboom, 1981); since word-initial position plays an important role in lexical access, speakers disprefer changing segments in this position (Beckman, 1997;Kawahara & Shinohara, 2010). 9 More generally, the results show that, in line with other recent studies, grammatical intuitions are gradient (e.g., Chomsky 1965;Cohn 2006;Coetzee 2008Coetzee , 2009Coleman & Pierrehumbert 1997;Fanselow et al 2006;Frisch et al 2000Frisch et al , 2004Greenberg & Jenkins 1964;Hay et al 2003;Hayes 2000Hayes , 2009Hayes & Londe 2006;Myers 2009;Pierrehumbert 2001;Schütze 1996;Zuraw 2000) in the following two senses.…”

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Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Kawahara

2011

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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In Japanese loanword phonology, geminates optionally devoice when there is another voiced obstruent within the same stem, i.e., geminates may optionally devoice when they violate OCP(voice). This devoicing of OCP-violating geminates has received much attention in the recent phonological literature. However, the debates centering around this phenomenon have relied primarily on intuition-based data, and no systematic wellformedness judgment experiments have been performed. This paper fills that gap. The experiment reported in this paper shows that Japanese speakers do find devoicing of geminates natural when there is another voiced stop within the same word, i.e., when the geminates violate OCP(voice). The experiment moreover finds other interesting aspects of devoicing: (i) the naturalness of devoicing of OCP-violating geminates correlates positively with the lexical frequencies of the words in question, (ii) the naturalness of devoicing of OCP-violating geminates is not significantly affected by place of articulation, (iii) speakers find (context-free) devoicing of geminates more natural than devoicing of OCP-violating singletons, and (iv) speakers find the devoicing of OCP-violating singletons more natural in word-medial position than in word-initial position.

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Section: Gradiency: Beyond a Grammatical/ungrammatical Dichotomymentioning

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Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Kawahara

2011

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…This is manifested in the absence of #CeCo sequences and the presence of #CeCu, as indicated in (10). I will ignore this gap in the remaining discussion; a full analysis is provided in Beckman 1997) Data instantiating these distributional generalizations are given in (11)- (16) Hannan 1981 andPongweni 1990). Vowel length (which is noncontrastive and appears only in the penultimate syllable, as a reflex of stress) and tone are omitted throughout.…”

Section: Phonological Evidence Of Positional Privilegementioning

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Positional Faithfulness

Beckman¹

2004

Optimality Theory in Phonology

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“…It is worthy to note that both the B and T are separate outputs and as such, each constitutes a free standing form. Hence, the need to analyze the patterns observed based on the correspondence between two output forms, but not between an input (I) and an output (O) as was the "original" motivation for the correspondence theory, though there is IO relation between the I and the B of the T. Before we begin the definition and evaluation of our working constraints, let us define what Correspondence is following McCarthy & Prince (1995), which is further expatiated by Beckman (1997) as follows. (10) Correspondence (McCarthy & Prince 1995;Beckman, 1997, p. 13) Given two related strings S 1 and S 2 (underlying and surface), correspondence is a relation R from the elements of S 1 to those of S 2 .…”

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Truncation of SOme Akan Personal Names

Adomako

2015

GEMA Online

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This paper examines some morphophonological processes in Akan personal names with focus on the former process. The morphological processes of truncation of some indigenous personal names identified among the Akan (Asante) ethnic group of Ghana are discussed. The paper critically looks at some of these postlexical morpheme boundary processes in some Akan personal names realized in the truncated form when two personal names interact. In naming a child in a typical Akan, specifically in Asante"s custom, a family name is given to the child in addition to his/her "God-given" name or day-name. We observe truncation and some phonological processes such as vowel harmony, compensatory lengthening, etc. at the morpheme boundaries in casual speech context. These morphophonological processes would be analyzed within the Optimality Theory framework where it would be claimed that there is templatic constraint that demands that the base surname minimally surfaces as disyllable irrespective of the syllable size of the base surname. The relatively high ranking of this minimality constraint, we claim in this paper, forces the application of the compensatory lengthening rule to ensure satisfaction of that constraint in the truncated forms.

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Positional faithfulness, positional neutralisation and Shona vowel harmony

Cited by 319 publications

References 140 publications

Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Positional Faithfulness

Truncation of SOme Akan Personal Names

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