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ROA 1062-1209

A Closer Look at Iterative Foot Optimization and the Case against Parallelism

Brett Hyde <bhyde at artsci.wustl.edu>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1062


Abstract:
Pruitt (2008) briefly compares the predictions of Iterative
Foot Optimization, couched in the framework of Harmonic
Serialism (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy 2007), to
those of Generalized Alignment (McCarthy and Prince 1993),
the earliest account of metrical stress in Optimality Theory,
and observes that the former avoids the difficulties associated
with the Odd-Parity Parsing Problem (Hyde 2007, 2008) and
related issues, while the latter does not. If true, the
claim presents an important argument for serialism independent
of its ability to account for certain types of opacity effects.


In this article, I compare the predictions of Iterative
Foot Optimization and Generalized Alignment in some detail,
both in the context of basic directional parsing patterns
for quantity-insensitive systems and in the context of the
Odd-Parity Parsing Problem. Since the comparison is a bit
more thorough here than in previous examinations, there
are additional results to consider, and they lead to a strikingly
different conclusion.

Comments: 
Keywords: serialism, parallelism, metrical stress theory
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1062