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ROA 981-0708

Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters

Arto Anttila <anttila at stanford.edu>
Vivienne Fong <vivienne at stanford.edu>
Stefan Benus <sb513 at nyu.edu>
Jennifer Nycz <jrn218 at nyu.edu>

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Abstract:
Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological
processes that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative
evidence shows that these patterns are genuine and systematic.
Two main conclusions emerge. First, a small set of phonological
constraints yields a typological structure (T-order) that
captures the quantitative patterns, independently of specific
assumptions about how the grammar represents variation.
Second, the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that
phonological opacity has only one source: the interleaving
of phonology and morphology.

Comments: To appear in Phonology 25.2
Keywords: variation, opacity, implicational universals, factorial typologies, Stratal Optimality Theory
Areas: Phonology
Type: Journal Article

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