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ROA 1048-0909

Pausal phonology and morpheme realization

John J. McCarthy <jmccarthy at linguist.umass.edu>

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Abstract:
Classical Arabic has complex phonological alternations affecting
words in utterance-final position, traditionally called
'pause'. All pausal forms end in a heavy syllable, but the
ways of achieving this result are both diverse and subject
to both phonological and morphological conditioning.

This paper argues that an adequate analysis of Arabic's
pausal phonology requires a derivational version of Optimality
Theory, called Harmonic Serialism, in which morpheme spell-out
is interleaved with phonological processes.

Comments: Will appear (after revision) in Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Lisa Selkirk. Ed. Toni Borowsky, Shigeto Kawahara, Takahito Shinya, Mariko Sugahara. London: Equinox,
Keywords: Harmonic Serialism, Arabic, pause
Areas: Phonology
Type: Book Chapter

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