Galician geada: In defense of underspecification in Optimality Theory

Colina, Sonia

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.04.003

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“…Although this is a potentially attractive alternative to considering underspecified inputs, I will not pursue the possibility here due to the range of works making use of input underspecification in OT (e.g. Inkelas 1994;Harrison & Kaun 2001;Colina 2013). some cases.…”

Section: The Contrastive Hierarchy and Optimality Theorymentioning

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Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT

Mackenzie

2016

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Through analyses of dental harmony in four Nilotic languages, this paper argues both for contrastive representations and for a stratal version of Optimality Theory. Dholuo, Päri, Shilluk and Anywa all have dental harmony patterns which bar the co-occurrence of dental and alveolar segments. Details of the dental harmony patterning vary between languages and are tied to contrasts in the inventory. In Anywa, harmony is non-structure-preserving and an allophonic dental nasal surfaces in harmonic forms. This pattern can be analyzed in a stratal model of OT but leads to a ranking paradox if only a single level of evaluation is used. Further support for a stratal analysis can be found in the interaction between harmony and consonant mutation processes in the four languages. In Dholuo, harmony applies at the stem level and consonant mutation results in disharmonic surface forms in morphologically complex words. In Anywa, harmony applies later, at the word level, and words formed through consonant mutation must obey the dental harmony restrictions.

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Section: The Contrastive Hierarchy and Optimality Theorymentioning

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Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT

Mackenzie

2016

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Language as Object of Research Versus Language as Political Object: Old and New Horizons in the Study of Galician

Regueira

2022

Gender, Displacement, and Cultural Networks of Galicia

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Output-Drivenness and Partial Phonological Features

Magri

2018

Linguistic Inquiry

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Tesar (2014) develops the notion of output-drivenness, provides guarantees that Optimality Theory grammars satisfy it, and demonstrates its learnability implications. This article discusses the extension of Tesar’s theory to a representational framework with partial phonological features. It considers a hierarchy of notions of output-drivenness of increasing strength that can be defined within this extended framework. It determines the strongest notion of output-drivenness that holds in the case of partial features. And it shows that the learnability implications discussed by Tesar carry over to a framework with partial features only if feature undefinedness is effectively treated by identity faithfulness constraints as an additional feature value.

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Galician geada: In defense of underspecification in Optimality Theory

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT

Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT

Language as Object of Research Versus Language as Political Object: Old and New Horizons in the Study of Galician

Output-Drivenness and Partial Phonological Features

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