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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
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