The Indeterminacy/Attestation Model of Metathesis

Hume, Elizabeth

doi:10.1353/lan.2004.0083

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“…As an alternative to the standard syllabic approach, I develop a perception-based one, formalized in optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky 2004), in which more perceptible consonants are protected from deletion by higher-ranked faithfulness constraints. This perceptually based account pursues a very productive line of research highlighting the role of perceptual factors in segmental processes (see, for example , Flemming 1995;Boersma 1998;Steriade 1999a, b, c;Côté 2000a; several contributions in Hume and Johnson 2001;Wilson 2001;Hume 2004). It is also consistent with recent work questioning the syllabic basis of consonant phonotactics (Steriade 1999a, b;Côté 2000a;Blevins 2003; see also Lamontagne 1993).…”

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“…Consonants in particular should be perceptually salient, and deletion applies when a consonant lacks perceptual salience and becomes more easily confusable with nothing, that is when the cues that permit a listener to detect its presence are diminished. 9 This approach pursues a line of research that has been growing and that explores the role of perceptual factors in phonological analyses; see, for instance, Kawasaki 1982;Flemming 1995;Jun 1995;Wright 1996;Boersma 1998;Steriade 1999a, b, c;Côté 2000a, in press a, b;Wilson 2001;Hume 2004; and the various contributions in Hume and Johnson 2001.…”

Section: General Considerations On Consonant Deletion and Perceptibilmentioning

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On Perception and Sonority in Cluster Simplification: Consonant Deletion in Icelandic Preterites

Côté

2004

JGL

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This article investigates the motivations for consonant cluster simplification through an analysis of consonant deletion in Icelandic, in clusters of three consonants created by the addition of the preterite suffix -ti/-di/-∂i directly to the verb stem. It is argued that deletion is driven by perceptual factors interacting with sonority requirements. Deletion targets stops and nonstrident obstruents and its likelihood correlates with similarity in manner and place of articulation between the consonants and their adjacent segments. These two generalizations are elucidated in terms of perceptual cues, and an optimality-theoretic analysis is developed in which more perceptible consonants are protected from deletion by higher-ranked faithfulness constraints. * Introduction.The simplification of consonant clusters in Icelandic has served to illustrate an approach to consonant deletion in terms of syllabic wellformedness. In analyzing the data in 1 Itô (1986) assumes that Icelandic allows only one consonant in the coda and that all other consonants go in the onset. In 1a the syllabification [m.pr] is possible and all the consonants in the sequence are licensed. But in 1b-c the medial consonant is lost since neither [pt] nor [vn], according to Itô, are acceptable onsets given their sonority profile. These sequences show up in the infinitive kemba 'comb' and the nominative hálfur 'half', in which the stem is followed by a vowel-initial suffix.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

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Section: General Considerations On Consonant Deletion and Perceptibilmentioning

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On Perception and Sonority in Cluster Simplification: Consonant Deletion in Icelandic Preterites

Côté

2004

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“…sàr + nà 'tsetse flies'): The rule in (7) states that noun stem final CV transposes to VC before a plural suffix. (Hume 2004). In Elmolo, metathesis takes place in the plural formation by the addition of the plural suffix /-o/ to the nouns beginning with the obstruent stop as in (8) below, while in Sidamo, the process occurs before suffixes with initial sonorant /-n/ as shown in (9) taken from (Hume 2004:208).…”

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Morphophonological processes of the C’lela noun

Aliero¹

2015

Ghana J. Ling.

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This article discusses some aspects of the morphophonology of C'lela nouns. It will be shown that the addition of inflectional affixes to certain noun stems in C'lela, sometime motivate certain phonological processes. The analysis demonstrates that when the plural suffix [-nV] attaches to animate nouns in C'lela, it triggers certain morphophonological processes such as vowel copying, metathesis, vowel lengthening, final-vowel deletion, and initial-consonant deletion. For example, the paper argues that in plural formation, stem final-vowel sometimes undergoes metathesis when the plural marker /-nV/ attaches to a noun stem, thus; rm 'man' + na becomes r -n 'men, as against the rule of vowel epenthesis assumed in (Dettweiler 2012). In addition, the analysis discovers that the processes of metathesis and vowel lengthening are simply conditioned by phonological structure.Key Words: morphophonology, vowel copying, metathesis, vowel lengthening Résumé Ce travail de recherche parle de quelques aspects de la morphophonologie de noms en C'lela. Il montrera que quand les affixes infléchis sont ajoutés à certains noms (radicaux de noms) en C'lela, ils motivent quelquefois certains processus phonologiques. L'analyse démontre que si le pluriel du suffixe [-nV] s'attache aux noms inanimés en C'lela, il declenche quelques processus morphophonologiques tels que copiage de voyelle, métathèse, allongement de voyelle, délétion de la voyelle finale et la délétion consonne. Par exemple, la recherche soutient que dans la formation du pluriel, voyelle finale du radical des fois subit une métathèse si le marqueur du pluriel [-nV] s'attache à un radical du nom, ainsi ; rm "homme" + na dévient r -nà "hommes" au contraire de règles d'épenthèse de voyelle postulées dans (Dettweiler 2012). L'analyse découvre que les processus de la métathèse et l'allongement de voyelle sont conditionnés par la structure phonologique.

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“…The ranking of PARSE and *CATEG establishes a formal model of perceptual habituation, reflecting the listener's knowledge of learned phonotactic patterns, and attenuation to gradient detail (Hume 2004, Kuhl & Iverson 1995, Kuhl et al 1992, Peperkamp & Dupoux 2003. In this instance, habituation refers to listeners' relative attention to novel detail in the auditory input; listeners are more habituated to typical patterns of the language and less habituated to novel patterns.…”

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Rhotic Metathesis Asymmetries in Romance: Formalizing the Effects of Articulation and Perception on Sound Change

Webb

Bradley

2009

Romance Linguistics 2007

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) argue that rhotic metathesis occurs when listeners reinterpret an elongated [low F3] feature in a non-historical position. However, not all cases are amenable to this account, as no single phonetic property unifies the class of rhotics. We examine two cases involving intrasyllabic rhotic metathesis: rightward movement of // in French and leftward movement of // in Spanish. In Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), we formalize diachronic metathesis in terms of separate production and perception grammars, which account for the source of variance and the selection of innovative underlying forms, respectively. In production, gestural alignment constraints favor complete overlap of adjacent rhotic and vowel gestures, whose linear ordering is thereby rendered indeterminate. The output of the production grammar serves as input to the perception grammar, which maps surface forms to underlying forms in accordance with attested patterns of the language.

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The Indeterminacy/Attestation Model of Metathesis

Cited by 81 publications

References 108 publications

On Perception and Sonority in Cluster Simplification: Consonant Deletion in Icelandic Preterites

On Perception and Sonority in Cluster Simplification: Consonant Deletion in Icelandic Preterites

Morphophonological processes of the C’lela noun

Rhotic Metathesis Asymmetries in Romance: Formalizing the Effects of Articulation and Perception on Sound Change

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