<OT> New Posting: ROA-685

[Eric Bakovic]

ROA 685-0904

Headed Spans and Autosegmental Spreading

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

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=685


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 alternations, such as ’spreading’ by blocking epenthesis 
(Wilson 2003).
  This article proposes a modification of autosegmental representation 
that is intended to adddress these problems.


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

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=685