<OT> New Posting: ROA-575

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ROA 575-0203

Word-Final Onsets

John Harris <harris@ucl.co.uk>
Edmund Gussman <>

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Abstract:
A word-final consonant is standardly assumed to occupy a syllable coda.
An alternative
is to treat it as the onset of a syllable containing a phonetically unexpressed
nucleus. The
final-onset analysis is shown to out-perform the final-coda analysis on
a range of
phonological phenomena, including syllable typology, stress, vowel length,
and consonant
phonotactics. A constraint-based implementation of the final-onset analysis
provides a
straightforward treatment of the typological facts.

Keywords: word-final, consonant clusters, onsets, syllable typology, null
nucleus, stress, vowel length, consonant phonotactics

Areas: Phonology

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