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ROA 775-0905

Opacity from Constituency

Lian Hee Wee <chswlh at nus.edu.sg>

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Abstract:
Structural opacity often has derivation histories as deep
as the number of structural tiers. This paper uses Mandarin
third tone sandhi (T3 sandhi) as a case study of structural
opacity to develop the Inter-tier Correspondence Theory
(ICT) where structural configurations are taken into account
by allowing for nonterminal nodes to reconstruct information
of subordinate nodes. ICT marries the insights of both the
containment and correspondence approaches to Optimality
Theory while predicting that mere adjacency does not result
in markedness. Rather, it is to the constituency of units
that markedness constraints apply, which is derivation histories
are rarely deeper than there are structural tiers.

Comments: 
Keywords: Opacity, Correspondence, Tone sandhi, Mandarin
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

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