The -alis/-aris allomorphy revisited

Cser, András

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“…Steriade's explanation for this is that the feature [-lateral] is redundant for the [t,d,s,n] group, but contrastive for the [r,l] group. Cser (2010), referring to Dressler (1971) and Hurch (1991), has claimed that not only an intervening [r] blocks dissimilation, but that intervening labial and dorsal consonants block dissimilation as well. Here a word of caution on the data is in order.…”

Section: Dissimilation As a Consequence Of Embeddednessmentioning

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A Gestalt Theory Approach to Structure in Language

Buffart¹,

Jacobs

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The fact that human language is highly structured and that, moreover, the way it is structured shows striking similarities in the world’s languages has been addressed from two different perspectives. The first, and more traditional, generative hypothesis is that the similarities are due to an innate language faculty. There is an inborn ‘grammar’ with universal principles that manifest themselves in each language and cross-linguistic variation arises due to a different parameter setting of universal principles. A second perspective is that there is no inborn, innate language faculty, but that instead structure emerges from language usage. This paper purports to develop and illustrate a third perspective, according to which the structural similarities in human languages are the result of the way the cognitive system works in perception. The essential claim is that structural properties follow from the limitations of human cognition in focus.

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Section: Dissimilation As a Consequence Of Embeddednessmentioning

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A Gestalt Theory Approach to Structure in Language

Buffart¹,

Jacobs

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…miser and occurs in deference to a markedness constraint that applies across the entire vocabulary of Latin. Cser (2010: 42–3) points out that a sequence rV̆r is only found to occur in final syllables, and that all instances of final rV̆r reflect an earlier rr, being the products of the shortening of vowels in closed word‐final syllables that occurred circa 200 bce . (Meiser 1998: 77).…”

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Latin Rhotacism: A Case Study in the Life cycle of Phonological Processes

Roberts

2012

Trans of the Philol Soc

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Rhotacism in Latin is a well‐known phonological generalisation which, in its paradigm cases, can be stated as a regular sound change of [s] to [r] between vowels. This change/rule is posited on the basis both of comparative evidence, e.g. *swesor > Latin soror‘sister’, and of paradigms in which final s alternates with medial intervocalic r, e.g. flos, floris‘flower’. It is possible, however, to cite a number of exceptions to the basic rule which, if one attempts to account for all of them in a synchronic grammar, amount to outright paradoxes. This paper presents a diachronic model of the progress of rhotacism through the expected life cycle of a phonological process, within the formalism of Stratal Optimality Theory, and demonstrates that this model can account for the exceptions to rhotacism as epiphenomena of the expected progress of the constraint ranking giving rise to it from phrase to word level, and from word to stem level. Finally, I argue that rhotacism became a systematic property of the lexicon, at which point it was subject to analogical extension, giving the paradigm levelling observed in e.g. honor, honoris‘honour’ (formerly honos, honoris).

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“…Linguistic interest in the TSL class stems from its usefulness in describing longdistance dependencies, especially those that strictly piecewise constraints cannot handle such as blocked harmony patterns (Heinz et al 2011;McMullin 2016). For example, the liquid dissimilation pattern of Latin (Cser 2010) is a sort of blocked harmony pattern, shown to be 2-TSL by McMullin (2016). This pattern can be shown to be strictly star-free when restricted to the local or piecewise branches of the subregular hierarchy.…”

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Lambert

2023

J of Log Lang and Inf

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The -alis/-aris allomorphy revisited

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A Gestalt Theory Approach to Structure in Language

A Gestalt Theory Approach to Structure in Language

Latin Rhotacism: A Case Study in the Life cycle of Phonological Processes

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