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ROA 646-0304

The phonological role of paradigms: The case of insular Catalan

Maria-Rosa Lloret <mrosa.lloret at ub.edu>

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Abstract:
This paper argues that the apparent exceptional behavior
that is found in insular Catalan verbs is due to paradigm
uniformity effects. The emphasis is on the failure of epenthesis
in suffix-less forms that violate the sonority constraints,
but a preliminary treatment of other interesting facts (final
devoicing, gliding, dialectal variation) is also given.
It is argued that the Optimal Paradigms model (McCarthy
2001), which establishes intra-paradigmatic symmetric corresponde
nce relations, captures these facts through output-output
faithfulness constraints that level paradigms unless they
are ruled out by high-ranked markedness requirements. The
differences between nouns and verbs are derived from the
organization of their paradigms.

Comments: To appear in: Auger, Julie; Clements, Clancy, and Vance, Barbara (ed.): Selected Proceedings of the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (Indiana University, 2003). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.
Keywords: paradigms, uniformity, epenthesis, markedness, underapplication, Catalan
Areas: Phonology, Morphology
Type: Manuscript

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