Absolute ill-formedness and other morphophonological effectsI thank three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and the editors for their encouragement. Anthony Dubach Green and Curt Rice sent valuable feedback to an earlier version of this paper. Thanks are also due to Mike Brame, Bruce Straub and Caroline Féry. All errors are mine.
Raffelsiefen, Renate; Raffelsiefen Renate; Free University of Berlin
Журнал:
Phonology
Дата:
2004
Аннотация:
In this paper I explore the theoretical significance of phonologically conditioned gaps in word formation. The data support the original approach to gaps in Optimality Theory proposed by Prince & Smolensky (1993), which crucially involves MPARSE as a ranked and violable constraint. The alternative CONTROL model proposed by Orgun & Sprouse (1999) is found to be inadequate because of lost generalisations and technical flaws. It is shown that a careful distinction between various morphophonological effects (e.g. paradigm uniformity effects, phonological repair and ‘stem selection’) is necessary to shed light on the morphology–phonology interface. The data investigated here support affix-specific constraint rankings, but argue against any stratal organisation of morphology.
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