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ROA 757-0705

Coda Maximisation in Northwest Saamic

Patrik Bye <Patrik.Bye at hum.uit.no>

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Abstract:
The languages of the Northwest Saamic group evince a pattern
of syllabification that maximises the complexity of the
coda in a bimoraic stressed syllable (Kiparsky 2004). The
coda maximisation requirement interacts with four other
syllabic well-formedness constraints in a fixed ranking
that regulates the sonority profile, quantity and structural
complexity of the rhyme. Varying the point at which the
coda maximisation requirement interleaves with the constraints
in this fixed ranking generates a restrictive microtypology
of coda maximisation in Northwest Saamic. The last part
of the paper proposes to eliminate the stipulative fixed
ordering by ranking the four syllabic well-formedness constraints
in a proper inclusion (stringency) hierarchy (de Lacy 2004).
It is argued that syllable rhymes may be characterised as
falling on a scale of degree of perceptual integrity (dpi)
and that complex codas are more dispreferred when the syllable
has low dpi.



Comments: To appear in Nordic Journal of Linguistics 28; Special issue on 'Dialects and Linguistic Theory'
Keywords: Saami, quantity, syllable structure, hypercharacterisation, Coda Maximisation, Optimality Theory
Areas: Phonology
Type: Journal Article

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