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ROA 1024-0409

Disjunctive Lexical Stratification

Peter Jurgec <peter.jurgec at uit.no>

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Abstract:
In many languages, loanwords allow patterns that are absent
in the native phonology. The opposite pattern, in which
loanwords only allow a subset of the structures attested
in native words, is cross-linguistically rare but attested.
This paper presents the third type of language, in which
the sets of native and foreign phonotactic patterns are
disjunctive. In Slovenian, there is no overlap between the
sets of front vowels appearing before tautosyllabic [r]
in native words and in loanwords. Disjunctive distributions
are directly relevant to the theory of lexical indexation
since they require indexed markedness constraints in addition
to indexed faithfulness constraints.

Comments: To appear in Linguistic Inquiry 41 (2010)
Keywords: exceptions, loanwords, indexed constraints, ATR
Areas: Phonology
Type: Squib

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