Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!

Lahrouchi, Mohamed; Ulfsbjorninn, Shanti

doi:10.1162/ling_a_00469

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Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy

Bonet

2023

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology

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Underlying allomorphy poses a challenge to theories of the morphology–phonology interface when the conditioning factors include phonological information. Three basic types of cases are identified with respect to the nature of allomorph selection: (i) phonologically fully optimizing selection; (ii) phonologically partially optimizing selection; and (iii) phonologically arbitrary selection. The approaches that cover these three cases fall into two groups, ones where the selection is left completely to the morphology, with Vocabulary Insertion (in Distributed Morphology terms), and ones where the selection is left to the phonology (within some version of Optimality Theory), for at least fully optimizing and partially optimizing patterns; argumentation is given in favour of the latter approach. A discussion is also included on when and how cases of alleged underlying allomorphy can be reduced to surface‐only allomorphy and hence be assimilated to the regular phonological alternations of the language. For the cases discussed, it is shown that capturing the differences between the alternants in terms of a single representation that includes floating segments is feasible especially when one of the alternants surfaces with a subset of the segments of the other alternant, not with most instances of suppletion. One of the examples of suppletion is still reanalysed as a case of surface‐only allomorphy with the inclusion of a restricted version of the constraint OCP.

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Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy

Bonet

2023

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology

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2034

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper attempts to resolve the dialect variation of s-debuccalisation without invoking rule ordering (Harris & Kaisse 1999), or level ordering (Broś 2018), or using tools such as Output-Output Correspondence (McCarthy 2005). What makes this possible is renouncing the belief that “prefixes” and “words” represent unified domains across the different dialects of Spanish. Instead, I will demonstrate that the differences are explained almost entirely by whether one considers prefixes to be cyclic. If they are, there is effectively a word-boundary between prefix and stem, otherwise the juncture between prefix and stem is effectively word-medial. With this assumption alone, the representational account here allows the opacity to emerge directly from the representation in the Granadan prefix-juncture and the Chilean word-juncture. The typology of positional s-debuccalisation is then completed as we consider Buenos Aires Spanish. The analysis will be stated in realisational terms using a modular phonology > phonetics architecture (cf. Substance Free Phonology (Hale & Reiss 2008; Reiss 2017)) and the representational tools of Strict CV (Ségéral & Scheer 2001).

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An apparent case of outwardly-sensitive allomorphy in the Armenian definite

Dolatian

2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Cross-linguistically, it is rare to find cases of phonologically-conditioned allomorphy where the trigger morpheme lies external to the target morpheme. At first sight, the Armenian definite suffix seems to be such a case. The definite suffix uses various surface forms. The choice of surface form is conditioned by the preceding segment, the following clitic, and/or the following word. However, we argue that this outward sensitivity is epiphenomenal and not actual allomorphy. We derive the surface forms by using an abstract underlying representation that uses floating segments or ghost segments. These segments go through rigid cycles of spell-out and phonological strata. Constraint re-rankings of autosegmental docking, phrasal resyllabification, and cluster avoidance explain a range of dialectal variation. In sum, the Armenian definite suffix is one case of an apparent case of outwardly-sensitive allomorphy that is reducible to latent segments.

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Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!

Cited by 4 publications

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Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy

Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy

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An apparent case of outwardly-sensitive allomorphy in the Armenian definite

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