The theoretical status of morphologically conditioned phonology: a case study of dominance effects

Inkelas, Sharon

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4998-3_5

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“…Stress feet can be constructed left-to-right or right-to-left. However, Hayes (1995:265) Finally, another indication of a right-left asymmetry in stress systems is that "dominant" affixes, which have been discussed by Inkelas (1996Inkelas ( , 1998, Alderete (2001a,b), and others, are much more likely to be suffixes than prefixes.…”

Section: Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu

Hyman¹

2008

Linguistics

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This paper is concerned with two types of word-level asymmetries and their interaction: leftright asymmetries and stem-word asymmetries. Two left-right asymmetries are examined from a wide range of languages, one morphological (the predominance of suffixation over prefixation), one phonological (the preference for anticipatory over perseverative phonology). Since phonological processes are often triggered by features which originate in roots, a second asymmetry is also addressed: the tendency for suffixes to be more tightly bound to roots than prefixes. Asymmetries between stem-vs. word phonology are examined in Bantu, where suffixes are incorporated into a derived stem domain, from which prefixes are typically excluded. This root+suffix stem domain is shown to be the locus of phonological activity in Proto-Bantu and throughout the large Bantu family, which divides into two typological zones: (i) Northwest Bantu languages, which impose a maximal size condition and stringent consonant distribution constraints on stems; (ii) Central Bantu languages, which do not restrict the size or consonant distribution of stems, but frequently impose a minimal size condition on words. The study presents a number of generalizations concerning such asymmetries and identifies questions for future research.

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Section: Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu

Hyman¹

2008

Linguistics

109

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“…External prefixes (as in the B4 paradgim gidel -megadel -ye-gadel 'to raise Past -Participle -Future'), are attributed to a constraint FAITHSYLLSTEM, which requires the preservation of the syllabic structure of the input stem (recall that the input is a surface representation, and thus includes a syllabic structure). FAITHSYLLSTEM and WORDMIN often compete with each other, and the data suggest the existence of co-phonologies (Inkelas 1998, Anttila 2002, i.e. that in some configurations FAITHSYLLSTEM outranks WORDMIN, and in others WORDMIN outranks FAITHSYLLSTEM.…”

Section: Prosodic Structure : Syllablesmentioning

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The Fate of the Consonantal Root and the Binyan in Optimality Theory

Bat‐El¹

2003

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“…For example, they can be specified for entire morphological collocations, as in co-phonologies (Orgun 1996, Inkelas 1998), or as a property of individual morphemes (Benua 2000, Itô & Mester 1999, Pater 2000. Clearly, stem classes are necessary, as in lexical stratification in general, because a stem differs precisely in the reduplication pattern it exhibits.…”

Section: Encoding Multiple Patterns In the Same Grammarmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While not directly predicted by them, the principle of fixed markedness hierarchies is also consistent with alternative models of multiple output patterns and exceptions. For example, co-phonologies and morphologies provide analyses of multiple output patterns by associating potentially distinct constraint rankings with constructions (Antilla 2002, Inkelas 1998, Orgun 1996. This approach can be consistent with (16) by assuming that the constraint rankings associated with distinct constructions obey the principal of fixed markedness hierarchies.…”

Section: Encoding Multiple Patterns In the Same Grammarmentioning

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Reduplication in Hawaiian: variations on a theme of minimal word

Alderete

MacMillan

2014

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Abstract. The article explores a database of over 1600 reduplicated words in Hawaiian and gives the first comprehensive account of the empirical generalizations concerning reduplicant form and associated vowel length alternations. We argue that the observed output patterns and length alternations can be cogently analyzed by recognizing a minimal word target for reduplicant shape. Realizing a minimal word, or a single well-formed foot, is predicted by the integration of standard constraints on prosodic well-formedness and faithfulness constraints in Optimality Theory. We further show that all variant realizations of the reduplicant, and a myriad of exceptional patterns, can be accounted for by re-ordering only faithfulness constraints defined on distinct correspondence relations, documenting that one especially rich dataset can be analyzed with this limitation on constraint systems.

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The theoretical status of morphologically conditioned phonology: a case study of dominance effects

Cited by 170 publications

References 15 publications

Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu

Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu

The Fate of the Consonantal Root and the Binyan in Optimality Theory

Reduplication in Hawaiian: variations on a theme of minimal word

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