<OT> New Posting: ROA-762

[Rutgers Optimality Archive]

ROA 762-0705

Counter-Feeding Opacity as a Chain Shift Effect

Anna Lubowicz <lubowicz at usc.edu>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=762


Abstract:
This article argues that counter-feeding opacity can be understood as a 
chain shift mapping and provides an account of chain shifts using 
contrast preservation theory (Lubowicz 2003). A case is examined that 
involves interaction between palatalization and spirantization in 
Polish (Rubach 1984). The central idea is that there exist constraints 
on contrast that can compel a phonological process. The key implication 
is that push shifts are admitted, unlike in previous approaches to 
opacity in OT (i.e., local conjunction, ternary scales, sympathy theory 
etc.).

Comments: Paper published (2003) in WCCFL 22 proceedings, 315-327.
Keywords: contrast, push shift, opacity, Polish
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=762