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ROA 685-0904

Headed Spans and Autosegmental Spreading

John J. McCarthy <jmccarthy at linguist.umass.edu>

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Abstract:
When Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) is applied
to autosegmental phonology (Goldsmith 1976), markedness
constraints that favor autosegmental spreading are required.
The pro-spreading markedness constraints in the current
literature have typological problems: they undergenerate
because they do not favor partial spreading (McCarthy 2003),
or they overgenerate because they can favor unattested alternatio
ns, such as 'spreading' by blocking epenthesis (Wilson 2003).

This article proposes a modification of autosegmental representat
ion that is intended to adddress these problems.

Comments: 
Keywords: alignment, autosegmental, harmony, tone
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

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