<OT> New Posting: ROA-592

[Rutgers Optimality Archive]

ROA 592-0403

More on Alignment as an alternative to domains: the syllabification of
Catalan clitics

Eulalia Bonet <eulalia.bonet@uab.es>
Maria-Rosa Lloret <lloret@lincat.ub.es>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=592


Abstract:
In Catalan vowel epenthesis and consonant deletion seem to have a
different conditioning in simple words, in verb-clitic or clitic-verb
sequences, and in clitic-clitic sequences (where an emergence of the
unmarked effect with respect to syllable structure is found). In this
paper, it is argued that, in spite of these domain effects, which would
suggest the need for a serial analysis, all the facts concerning
epenthesis and consonant deletion can be accounted for in a parallel
optimality-theoretic approach. The differences in behavior are the
consequence of the different ranking of morphological Alignment
constraints with respect to other constraints and an Alignment constraint
that makes reference to subsyllabic constituents.

Keywords: domain effects, parallelism, Alignment, Catalan clitics,
epenthesis, consonant deletion

Areas: Phonology

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=592