Yucatec Maya Vowel Alternations — Harmony as Syntagmatic Identity

Krämer, Martin

doi:10.1515/zfsw.2001.20.2.175

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“…This is by no means a new claim and is in principle the same assumption defended in accounts based on, for example, underspecification (e.g. Archangeli, 1988;Inkelas, 1995;Krämer, 2000Krämer, , 2001 or prosodic defectivity (e.g. Yearley, 1995;Stiebels & Wunderlich, 1999;Zimmermann, 2017c).…”

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confidence: 64%

Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec

Zimmermann

2018

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The assumption of Gradient Symbolic Representations (Smolensky & Goldrick 2016; Rosen 2016) allows a unified account of lexical exceptions to phonological generalizations or processes. It states that phonological elements can have different degrees of presence in an underlying representation, expressed as numerical activities. In this paper, I strengthen the argument for Gradient Symbolic Representations and provide a case study of two seemingly unrelated exceptions in the tonal phonology of San Miguel el Grande Mixtec that receive a unified explanation under the assumption of gradient activity. In addition, I argue for a modification of the original Gradient Symbolic Representation assumption and propose the existence of gradient activity in the output. This assumption allows to predict markedness-driven exceptionality patterns that remain unexplained in the original proposal.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 64%

Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec

Zimmermann

2018

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“…Swahili (Cambell, 2001;Myachina, 1981) High (Ito, 1984;Krä mer, 2003) Vowel copy Undergoer Transitivizing verbal suffix /-V/…”

Section: Appendix a Further Examples Of Exceptions In Vowel Harmonymentioning

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Exceptions in vowel harmony are local

Finley

2010

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“…Both approaches to vowel harmony predict that morphemes can be realized by general harmony (no matter what the feature is), which (to my knowledge) is unattested. In addition, I address the notion that phonological vowel harmony can be induced via segmental correspondence (Hansson, 2001;Krämer, 2001Krämer, , 2002Rose and Walker, 2004).…”

Section: Morphemic Harmony As Exceptional Phonological Harmonymentioning

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“…Another possibility is that vowel harmony can be analyzed as a correspondence between vowels (Hansson, 2004;Krämer, 2001Krämer, , 2003McCarthy, 2007;Rose and Walker, 2004). Under this approach, when segments are in correspondence, they are subject to a separate set of identity constraints that require segments in correspondence to share some other feature.…”

Section: Phonological Vowel Harmony As Correspondencementioning

confidence: 99%