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ROA 813-0306

Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity

Eric Bakovic <bakovic at ling.ucsd.edu>

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Abstract:
Potential vowel hiatus between words in Chicano Spanish
is always resolved using one of several strategies, the
choice among these strategies being influenced by several
factors. One of these is the avoidance of adjacent segment
identity, but complete identity appears not to be required:
differences with respect to the feature [±high] are ignored
in a specific set of cases. The analysis of these facts
presented here supports the general proposal advanced by
Bakovic (2005ab) that the avoidance of adjacent similar
segments is due to the simultaneous satisfaction a constraint
NO-LONG, which penalizes completely identical adjacent segments
only, and other independently motivated constraints in the
grammar.

Comments: To appear in S. Colina & F. Martinez-Gil (eds.), Optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Keywords: hiatus, vowel, glide, length, Spanish
Areas: Phonology
Type: Book Chapter

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