Postalveolar co-occurrence restrictions in Slovenian

Jurgec, Peter; Schertz, Jessamyn

doi:10.1007/s11049-019-09452-z

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“…For instance, Ernestus & Baayen (2003) show that Dutch speakers' productions of nonce words reflect distributional characteristics of the Dutch lexicon, with velars in root-final position eliciting relatively more voicing than labials and coronals. For Slovenian, Jurgec & Schertz (2020) show that velar palatalization at the rootsuffix boundary is disfavoured when the steam contains another postalveolar due to a consonant co-occurrence restriction confirmed on corpus data (Jurgec 2016).…”

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Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian

Beguš¹,

Jurgec²

2021

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The prosodic systems of the world’s languages vary widely in their complexity. In this paper, we report on a prosodic pattern in Žiri Slovenian, which displays an intricate set of interactions between tone, stress, quantity, and vowel quality. Some of the prosodic patterns are well motivated (e.g. the preference of High tone syllables to be stressed) while others lack phonetic or phonological motivation (e.g. the preference of long vowels to fall on the second syllable of a trochaic foot). Žiri also displays a rare case of interaction of prosody with vowel quality. To confirm productivity of the observed patterns, we conducted a wug experiment that tested the dependence of stress on vowel quality, word length, and tone. All in all, this paper brings forth new instances of phonetically unmotivated phonological processes at the suprasegmental level, which appear less discussed than at the segmental level. We also discuss methodological issues arising from artificial experiments on tonal processes.

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Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian

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Jurgec²

2021

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“…Our intuition is that it is all but clear that modern speakers can derive the initial consonants in ˈɡnati~ˈʒɛnemo from the same underlying segment. While there is growing body of evidence that velar palatalisation is productive at the morpheme boundary (Jurgec 2016;Zymet 2018;Jurgec & Schertz 2020), we are not aware of any robust evidence for active rootinternal velar palatalisation, which would lead the speakers towards the analysis assumed by the reviewer. Jurgec & Schertz (2020) do show that in nonce words speakers prefer postalveolars over velars morpheme-internally, but this cannot be taken as direct evidence of active morphemeinternal palatalisation, since speakers can also assume underlying postalveolars in such words.…”

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Theme-vowel class indeterminacy and root allomorphy in Slovenian

Simonović

Mišmaš

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Slovenian verbs have been analyzed as displaying non-local root allomorphy which gets triggered across the theme vowel (Božič 2016; 2019). We reevaluate the data (using a larger set of verbs) and reconsider the structure of the verb in Slovenian (focusing primarily on the position of the theme vowel). We show that root allomorphy in Slovenian only occurs in a very limited number of theme-vowel classes, making the inventory of theme-vowel classes crucial for the correct analysis of root allomorphy. We further show that an overwhelming majority of verbs with root allomorphy is ambiguous in that these verbs can be analyzed as belonging to different theme-vowel classes. We propose a way of resolving the ambiguity and present an analysis of root allomorphy in terms of phonologically conditioned allomorph selection. In the proposed model, which combines Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory, a single Vocabulary Item with a complex phonological representation gets inserted and then phonological constraints select the final shape of the exponent (Kager 2008). We show that all root allomorphy is triggered locally and restricted to the phase in which the root gets spelled out.

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“…Becker et al (2011) demonstrate that variable laryngeal alternations in Turkish depend on word length and consonant place. Jurgec & Schertz (2020) show that variable velar palatalization in Slovenian depends on the suffix and is restricted by a consonant co-occurrence restriction on postalveolars. Persian hiatus constitutes another example.This paper is organized as follows.…”

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Variable Hiatus in Persian is Affected by Suffix Length

Ariyaee

Jurgec

2021

AMP

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In this paper, we conduct two experiments to examine variable hiatus in Spoken Persian. The production experiment reveals that variation is restricted. For instance, elision of the first vowel, which is cross-linguistically common (Casali 1997), is never attested. Moreover, elision of the second vowel is rare with monosegmental (-V) suffixes. The perception experiment confirms that elision of the second vowel is preferred with polysegmental suffixes, but rare with monosegmental suffixes, where hiatus is favoured instead. The preference of hiatus over epenthesis remains constant regardless of suffix length. This study contributes to the discussion of variable phonological processes and constitutes the first experimentally confirmed case of variable hiatus to date.

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Postalveolar co-occurrence restrictions in Slovenian

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian

Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian

Theme-vowel class indeterminacy and root allomorphy in Slovenian

Variable Hiatus in Persian is Affected by Suffix Length

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