<OT> New Posting: ROA-777

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ROA 777-0905

Phonological opacity and counterfactual derivation

Eric Bakovic <bakovic at ling.ucsd.edu>

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Abstract:
It has become almost axiomatic that OT is ill-suited for
the treatment of opacity (as defined in Kiparsky 1973),
non-surface-apparent generalizations in particular
(counterbleeding; McCarthy 1999). My goal in this squib 
is to show that there exists an important class of 
heretofore unrecognized non-surface-apparent
generalizations that can in fact only be contended with successfully within OT. In a turnabout on the usual play,
it is Derivational Phonology that must be significantly
modified in order to properly capture this kind of 
generalization, giving the lie to the prevailing
view that opacity is a natural class of synchronically real
phenomena with a unified analysis in terms of rule ordering.

Comments: 
Keywords: opacity, derivation
Areas: Phonology
Type: Squib

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