Sympathy and phonological opacity

Abstract

I also wish to acknowledge the assistance of Ellen Kaisse, two anonymous reviewers and especially the anonymous associate editor, whose detailed, thoughtful and supportive comments did much to improve this article. 5 Since this research was first presented, several works have come to my attention that apply and extend the sympathy notion in novel and insightful ways : Bakovic! (to appear), Davis (1997a, b),

Markedness in Urban East Norwegian tonal accent

“…Special (and controversial) features of OT must be invoked, such as outputoutput correspondence (McCarthy 2002:175f. ) with the non-syllabic sonorant in the indefinite forms as the regulating feature, or more controversially, a solution based on Sympathy (McCarthy 2000), where the monosyllabic candidate (with accent 1 due to its monosyllabic status, but with non-harmonic rhyme that will make it loose to candidates with more harmonious syllable structure) would be the sympathetic form. Alternatively, one might want to explore the possibilities connected with cyclic OT modelled on Lexical Phonology (see e.g.…”

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“…In this paper, we will first point out the various problems rule-based approaches encounter when all relevant facts are taken into consideration. We will then suggest an analysis that uses the Correspondence version of Optimality Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995) and that does not assume different levels, nor Output-Output constraints (Benua 1995), nor a device such as "Sympathy" (McCarthy 1998). …”

“…McCarthy (1998) proposed that the output candidate [von.t,k] wins because it is sympathetic to a loosing candidate [vont] and being 'sympathetic' outranks being faithful to the input form /vond/. McCarthy bases himself on Booij (1995Booij ( , 1996 who assumes that in the case of a stem plus a following vowel-initial clitic, the stem-final obstruent is devoiced at the lexical level.…”

Relações de identidade em modelos paralelistas: morfologia e fonologia

“…The paper rewiews the notion of faithfulness in three parellel models: (a) classic optimality (Prince & Smolensky, 1993), (b) correspondence (McCarthy & Prince, 1995;Benua, 1995) and (c) sympathy (McCarthy, 1998). While McCarthy s (1998) sympathy theory is a response to explaining phonological opacity within parallel optimality theory, it is demonstrated that non-concatenative morphology process, like truncation and lexical blend, also can be described with this framework.…”

“…A Simpatia (McCarthy, 1998), surgida no final da década de 90, oferece instrumentos igualmente eficazes para analisar não só a opacidade fonoló-gica, como também processos morfológicos que parecem fazer referência a um nível intermediário de representação, como é o caso da formação de hipocorísticos em português. Na seção seguinte, apresento uma análise, mais simpática e econômica, para a presença de consoantes idênticas nos hipocorísticos.…”