Russian /Cju/ and “perceptual” vs. “phonological” theories of borrowing: A reply to Paradis (and Thibeault)

Padgett, Jaye

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2009.07.006

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“…7 One possible phonological conditioning has to do with the phonotactic markedness of the sequence /C j u/ in Russian. In native words this sequence is rare except at a morpheme boundary, but even there it is rare if C is an obstruent (Padgett 2010). A phonologically-conditioned account of these facts might also be possible if one assumes that the 1sg suffix is /ju/, with an underlying glide that triggers the alternations.…”

Section: Morpho-phonological Alternations In 1sgmentioning

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Transderivational relations and paradigm gaps in Russian verbs

Pertsova¹

2016

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper I argue that the notorious case of paradigm gaps, the first person singular gaps of Russian verbs, are not synchronically arbitrary as is often assumed (Graudina et al. 1976; Daland et al. 2007; Baerman 2008), but are predictable and connected to the opaque morphophonological alternations affecting stem-final consonants in the 1st person singular (1sg) present tense. I present evidence for a new empirical generalization showing that the problematic alternations in verbs are subject to a lexical conservatism effect (Steriade 1997). Namely, stems that appear in other derivationally or inflectionally related forms with the same alternation as the one expected in 1sg generally do not have gaps, while stems that have no attested related forms with alternations do. Overall, a larger set of verbs are problematic for the speakers than indicated in dictionaries, and there are degrees of "gappiness" with a lot of variation across speakers. Additionally, I consider how different theoretical proposals for handling ineffability fare in accounting for these findings. I propose to augment the framework of Harmonic Grammar (Legendre et al. 1990) with an additional postcompetition step during which outputs can be compared to each other based on their Harmony scores. This proposal is not tied to violations of specific constraint and it has potential to account for both paradigm gaps and gradient grammaticality judgments.

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Section: Morpho-phonological Alternations In 1sgmentioning

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Transderivational relations and paradigm gaps in Russian verbs

Pertsova¹

2016

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Loanword phonology and perceptual mapping: Comparing two corpora of Korean contact with English

Jong¹,

Cho²

2012

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This article compares an extensive collection of English loanwords into Korean with a corpus of perceptual responses to English productions by Korean students of English in Korea. The analysis selects ten obstruents situated in four prosodic contexts: initial, final, and pre- and poststress intervocalic positions. Analyses compare the mapping of the obstruents onto Korean categories in the two databases, finding a strong logistic relationship between them, which indicates a process of loanword adaptation as a regularization of the cross-language perception patterns. This conclusion is also supported by differences in the maps across the prosodic positions, wherein loanword differences are correlated with perceptual differences, and by the fact that loanword adaptations are more variable for consonants that do not have a very robust perceptual map. The data, however, also exhibit exceptional cases that apparently indicate effects of a historical lexicalization of individual forms, as well as of an explicit sociocultural standard. Thus, loanword adaptation in this case, though largely indicative of a perceptual base, is more than just synchronic perception.

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Loanword Adaptation of Russian Obstruents in Korean

Byun¹,

Ahn²

2015

koreanjournaloflinguistics

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Russian /Cju/ and “perceptual” vs. “phonological” theories of borrowing: A reply to Paradis (and Thibeault)

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Transderivational relations and paradigm gaps in Russian verbs

Transderivational relations and paradigm gaps in Russian verbs

Loanword phonology and perceptual mapping: Comparing two corpora of Korean contact with English

Loanword Adaptation of Russian Obstruents in Korean

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