<OT> New Posting: ROA-1047

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ROA 1047-0909

Syllabification and Stress-Epenthesis Interactions in Harmonic Serialism

Emily Elfner <eelfner at linguist.umass.edu>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1047


Abstract:
In some languages, epenthetic vowels act as though they
are invisible to stress assignment. There are many proposals
for addressing this problem in various languages; however,
the challenge is particularly acute in Classic OT because
the markedness constraints responsible for stress only evaluate
surface forms. This paper presents a new proposal within
the framework of Harmonic Serialism, a version of OT that
combines constraint interaction with serial derivation.
This proposal accounts for opaque stress-epenthesis interactions
using only traditional constraint ranking, with no machinery
beyond the adoption of a serial, rather than parallel, framework.
This paper shows that Harmonic Serialism retains many of
the advantages of Classic OT, including factorial typology
by constraint permutation and the use of constraint ranking
to account for non-uniform interactions, as evidenced from
analyses of stress-epenthesis interactions in Egyptian Arabic,
Dakota, and Levantine Arabic.

Comments: 
Keywords: serialism, syllabification, epenthesis, stress, opacity, non-uniformity, Arabic
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1047