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ROA 698-1104

Partial Identity Avoidance as Cooperative Interaction

Eric Bakovic <bakovic at ling.ucsd.edu>

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Abstract:
Avoidance of adjacent similar segments is argued here to
be the result of a constraint against adjacent identical
(long) segments in cooperation with other active constraints
as opposed to, for example, the di-rect result of some constraint
against adjacent similar segments. The crux of this Cooperative
Interaction hypothesis is the crucial dependence of partial
identity avoidance on other aspects of the grammar of the
language; the fact that a constraint other than the one
penalizing long segments must be active has conse-quences
that are independently verified in a case study of English
inflectional suffix allomorphy.

Comments: significant updates to static palatography section (§2.3); removal of Chicano Spanish section (§3, available as a separate paper upon request)
Keywords: geminates, OCP, assimilation, English, palatography
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

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