<OT> New Posting: ROA-781

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ROA 781-1005

Nothing is a phonological fact: Gaps and repairs at the phonology-morphology interface

Curt Rice <curt.rice at hum.uit.no>

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Abstract:
The paper discusses phonologically motivated gaps in inflectional
paradigms and builds further on the analysis in Rice (2005). In that paper, we see an approach to modeling gaps based on a tension between markedness constraints, faithfulness constraints, and constraints which require the expression of morphological categories. Here we explore the prediction that constraints requiring the expression of different categories can vary in their relative ranking to faithfulness. Hence the approach predicts that the same phonotactic problem may be solved by a repair in one morphological context and by a gap in another. This prediction is illustrated and further implications are explored.

Comments: to appear in NELS 36
Keywords: phonology-morphology interface, gaps, paradigms, Norwegian
Areas: Phonology
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=781