Synchronic Rule Inversion

McCarthy, John J.

doi:10.3765/bls.v17i0.1628

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“…Indeed, both sounds do not satisfy the primary criterion for establishing a phonological contrast: no minimal pairs can be 14 We are here observing a rather strange state of phonological affairs: a process inserts a segment, which is then deleted by another process, both of which presumably occur within the same register, namely colloquial speech. Such conflicting interaction of rules is known as ''the Duke of York gambit'' in the literature (e.g., McCarthy, 1991, Pullum, 1976. What is also peculiar about this situation in Turkish is that the underlying consonants that are deleted in these examples could very well be retained to avoid hiatus.…”

Section: Resolving Hiatus Within Words: Glide Insertionmentioning

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Hiatus resolution in Turkish: An underspecification account

Kabak

2007

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Section: Resolving Hiatus Within Words: Glide Insertionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Hiatus resolution in Turkish: An underspecification account

Kabak

2007

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“…One of the most common explanations for the origin of intrusive segments is rule inversion, where a segment is most likely to be inserted into the environment from which it was most frequently deleted (McCarthy, 1991). In this corpus, 44% of all instances of intrusive-s occur in a sandhi environment before a voiceless stop.…”

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The status of s in Dominican Spanish

Bullock

Toribio

Amengual

2014

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Theoretical linguistic treatments of the intrusive-s of popular Dominican Spanish (yo[s] tuve < yo tuve 'I had') assume the hypothesis that illiterate speakers have reanalyzed their phonologies so that lexical items no longer contain any trace of coda-s. As a consequence, illiterate speakers are said to restore an s into random syllable codas in an attempt to hypercorrect to a more elevated style. Using natural data gathered from sociolinguistic interviews with Dominicans of diverse literacy levels, we demonstrate that the phonological characterization of intrusive-s in the theoretical literature is incorrect and the hypothesis that illiterate speakers lack etymological /s/ is also shown to be flawed. Instead, the results of a quantitative analysis demonstrate that, despite high rates of s-deletion, overtly manifested s usually corresponds to etymological-s. Intrusive-s arises relatively rarely in our corpus and it appears from this data that lexical and intrusive-s might have distinct linguistic distributions and they may differ in what they mark socially.

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“…Selkirk suggests the following way out of this dilemma: pronouns can be affixal clitics. She motivates this move with the phenomenon of 'intrusive -r ' in Eastern Massachusetts dialects, as observed by McCarthy (1991McCarthy ( , 1993. He showed that the '-r ' occurs at the right edges of prosodic words, as in (29-a).…”

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Weak function word shift

Vogel¹

2006

Linguistics

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The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains. This generalisation has been formulated within Optimality Theory in terms of alignment constraints on prosodic structure by Selkirk (1996) in explaining the distribution of prosodically strong and weak forms of English function words, especially modal verbs, prepositions and pronouns. But a purely phonological account fails to integrate the syntactic licensing conditions for object shift in an appropriate way. The standard semantico-syntactic accounts of object shift, on the other hand, fail to explain why it is only weak pronouns that undergo object shift. This paper develops an Optimality theoretic model of the syntax-phonology interface which is based on the interaction of syntactic and prosodic factors. The account can successfully be applied to further related phenomena in English and German.

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Synchronic Rule Inversion

Abstract: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 192-207

Cited by 106 publications

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Hiatus resolution in Turkish: An underspecification account

Hiatus resolution in Turkish: An underspecification account

The status of s in Dominican Spanish

Weak function word shift

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