<OT> New Posting: ROA-754

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ROA 754-0705

For an autosegmental theory of mutation

Matthew Wolf <mwolf at linguist.umass.edu>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=754


Abstract:
Autosegmental frameworks have long posited the existence
of morphemes that consist, in whole or in part, of floating
features, tones, or moras. Morphological feature-changing
(for which “mutation” is the most common traditional label)
can then be treated as concatenative in nature.


Recently, it has been suggested that mutation phenomena
might be brought under the purview of various approaches
to handling nonconcatenative morphology in OT, of which
Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness (Alderete 1999) and
REALIZE-MORPHEME (Kurisu 2001) are the most notable examples,
and the use of representational devices like floating features
eliminated.


This paper argues that a theory with floating autosegments--given
the new constraints proposed here--is capable of giving
a better account of attested mutation phenomena than anti-faithfu
lness, REALIZE-MORPHEME, or other competing approaches.

Comments: 
Keywords: mutation, autosegmental phonology, morpheme realization
Areas: Phonology,Morphology
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=754