Contrast preservation in Polish Palatalization

Abstract

There is a great deal of work on the role of contrast preservation in phonology and morphology (Flemming 1996; Padgett 2009; Hall 2011; Mackenzie 2013, among others). This article illustrates contrast preservation with the example of Coronal Palatalization in Polish (Rubach 1984; Gussmann 2007). The basic idea is that contrast is preserved between lexical items despite palatalization due to the choice of different allomorphs as suffixes for original and derived pre-palatals. If the same suffixes were selected for original and pre-palatal consonants, contrast would be neutralized between them in output forms. The analysis will be couched in the framework of PC ('preserve contrast') Theory (Łubowicz 2012). Cross-linguistic evidence and implications of the proposal will be examined.

Formalizing the connection between opaque and exceptionful generalizations

“…In particular, this paper focussed on the opaque pattern of Canadian Raising (Joos 1942, Chomsky 1964, Chambers 1973. This fits in a tradition of lexicon-oriented analyses of Canadian Raising (Joos 1942, Mielke et al 2003, Pater 2014, as well as the literature that analyzes other cases of opacity in terms of lexical storage (Sanders 2003(Sanders , 2006 or contrast preservation (Lubowicz 2003). At the same time, differently from most of these approaches, the current account incorporates the insight that Canadian Raising is a productive process (Idsardi 2006).…”

“…Pater (2014) shows that Canadian Raising (to be discussed in section 3.1) can be derived from a combination of universal and language-specific constraints in a Harmonic Grammar framework. In addition, Lubowicz (2003) provides an account of opacity explicitly motivated by the preservation of contrast. Indices in the sense of indexed constraints (see section 2) are a way of implementing contrast implicitly: there is a contrast between morphemes indexed with i and morphemes not indexed with i.…”

Lian-Hee Wee (2019). Phonological tone. (Key Topics in Phonology.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxii + 322.

“…The basics of OT are explained at the outset, including Eval , Gen and tableaux, so those who are not familiar with the theory can understand the analysis. Wee also introduces advanced theories in OT in the analysis of a seemingly arbitrary Taiwanese tone-sandhi circle: anti-faithfulness (Alderete 2001), comparative markedness (McCarthy 2003) and contrast preservation (Łubowicz 2003). The chapter also discusses rule-ordering effects and opacity.…”

Input Strictly Local opaque maps

“…Turning to optimisation-based theories, it is well-known that classic OT cannot generate many opaque maps (Idsardi 1998, 2000, McCarthy 2007, Buccola 2013) – as discussed by Baković (2007), OT analyses of non-gratuitous feeding and cross-derivational feeding are possible and straightforward. In response, many adjustments to classic OT have been proposed, including constraint conjunction (Smolensky 2006), sympathy theory (McCarthy 1999), turbidity theory (Goldrick 2000), output-to-output correspondence (Benua 1997), stratal OT (Kiparsky 1998, 2000, Bermúdez-Otero 2018), candidate chains (McCarthy 2007), Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2000), targeted constraints (Wilson 2000), contrast preservation (Łubowicz 2003), comparative markedness (McCarthy 2003) and serial markedness reduction (Jarosz 2014). See McCarthy (2007) for a review, meta-analysis and more references to these proposals.…”