Word-faithfulness and the direction of assimilations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20344164
AutoresToni Borowsky (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas1-28
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlir.2000.17.1.1
OpenAlexW2019576008
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas7

This paper proposes that differences in the direction of application of phonological rules can be attributed to the differences in the observed patterns of faithfulness at the WORD and ROOT-levels. Using data from English and Dutch I show that Progressive Voicing Assimilation is characteristically restricted to the inter-word environment (i.e. it occurs at the WORD-level) and is the consequence of WORD-faithfulness. I consider whether the same kind of faithfulness effect can account for assymetrical patterns observed with other phonological processes such as vowel harmony, vowel elision and nasal place assimilation

Linguistics · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis