Vestige Theory: Sociolinguistic evidence for output–output constraints

Kostakis, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.04.010

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“…There are many proposals in the OT literature on variable rankings. Here I follow Kostakis (), who argues that variation is always the result of a demoted constraint which leaves a vestige of itself behind in its original hierarchical position. Vestige constraints, unlike normal constraints, only variably assign violation marks.…”

Section: Analysing the Extrametricality Of Word‐final [S] Throughout mentioning

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Extrametricality in Latin

Kostakis

2017

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It is generally claimed that all coda consonants in Latin are moraic and therefore contribute to the weight of a syllable. Contrary to that characterisation, however, I argue that word‐final [s] was always extrametrical – as were all consonants after long vowels. That claim accounts for a number of phonological patterns that are poorly understood. Those patterns range from vowel length alternations in words like sūs ‘swine.nom.sg’ and suis ‘swine.gen.sg’ to underapplied rhotacism in words like opus ‘work’, which resists the analogical shift from [s] to [r] that is found in words like honour (< honōs) ‘honour.nom.sg’. In addition, extrametricality clarifies the idiosyncratic behaviour of word‐final [s] in Old Latin verse, in which the final syllable of a word like minus ‘less’ scans as light more often than it scans as heavy. Extrametrical consonants furthermore exhibit anomalous phonotactic patterns. For example, only word‐final [s] can create a coda with rising sonority. The resulting optimality theoretic analysis advances a detailed account of moraicity in Latin phonology and more generally informs our understanding of complex patterns in moraic structure that fall out from constraint interaction.

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Extrametricality in Latin

Kostakis

2017

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“…3 Sin entrar en muchos detalles acerca de la formalización, ésta se enmarca en la teoría de la optimidad (TO) (Prince y Smolensky, 2004[1993), y en especial en las versiones estocásticas (TOE) de esta perspectiva (Díaz Campos y Colina, 2006;Pater, 2009;Coetzee, 2009;Kostakis, 2010;Coetzee y Kawahara, 2013;Martín Butragueño, 2014a: 89-109;Serrano, 2014), entendiéndolas solo como un recurso descriptivo. La TOE regula el peso de las restricciones a través de algoritmos.…”

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Hacia una prosodia basada en el uso: actos de habla en el español mexicano

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El trabajo muestra algunas aportaciones del estudio de la prosodia basado en el uso lingüístico. Esta prosodia se basa en entrevistas cara a cara, muestras representativas en diferentes comunidades, habla despreocupada, una visión constructiva de los procesos lingüísticos, datos analizados en contexto, etc. Permite la generación de hipótesis sobre el desarrollo lingüístico, el cambio y la variación y en general un análisis de corte más realista. A este propósito, se comparan enunciados aseverativos y directivos desde un punto de vista regulativo, y también se estudian enunciados expresivos desde una perspectiva constitutiva. Los datos se representan en términos de la llamada teoría de optimidad estocástica. PALABRAS CLAVE: prosodia, actos de habla, español de México.

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Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory

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2017

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Vestige Theory: Sociolinguistic evidence for output–output constraints

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Extrametricality in Latin

Extrametricality in Latin

Hacia una prosodia basada en el uso: actos de habla en el español mexicano

Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory

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