Jerzy Rubach
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 116139 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jerzy Rubach |
| PRENOMES | Jerzy |
| SOBRENOME | Rubach |
| ASSINATURA | RUBACH J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3389-5547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 202 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Kurpian glides
This article addresses the problem of vowel-generated glides in Kurpian. In general, glides come from two sources: Gliding and Glide Insertion, for instance, word-initial /#iVC/ → [jVC] and /#iC/ → [jiC], where V stands for a vowel and C for a consonant. Even though Gliding and Glide Insertion are different phonological operations, they are united by a single goal: to eliminate onsetless syllables because a glide, regardless of whether it comes f…
Onset conspiracy in Upper Sorbian
This article has two goals: descriptive and theoretical. On the descriptive side, the article presents a grammar of gliding and epenthesis of Upper Sorbian. The descriptive goal is worthy because Upper Sorbian has a highly complex but regular and productive system of gliding and epenthesis. Upper Sorbian stands out from a typological point of view because it has ten [ sic ] different strategies to satisfy O nset . On the theoretical side, the que…
Three Arguments for Underspecified Representations
In classic generative phonology (The Sound Pattern of English, Lexical Phonology) underlying representations and associated rules account for generalizations of two types: alternation-based generalizations and distribution-based generalizations. This article addresses the issue of how distribution-based generalizations are handled in Standard Optimality Theory and in Derivational Optimality Theory. The former uses the principle of the Richness of…
Surface Velar Palatalization in Polish
This article investigates a palatalization process called Surface Velar Palatalization that turns /k g/ into [k j g j ] before the front vowel e. What would appear to be a trivial rule, k g k j g j /-E, turns out to be a highly complex process. The complexity is caused by several independent factors. First, Surface Velar Palatalization, k g k j g j , competes with Phonemic Velar Palatalization, k g . Second, some but not all changes are restricte…
Chain effects in Kurpian
This article considers chain effects in Kurpian. It is observed that initial i triggers j -Insertion. The inserted [j] induces a lowering process, whereby /i/ changes into [e] or [ə], depending on the context. This change destroys the original trigger of j -Insertion, making the process opaque, as in jënteres [jəntɛrɛs] ‘interest’, which exhibits the following chain: i → ji → jə . I argue that chain effects cannot be modeled in Standard Optimalit…
Liquid Lowering in Kurpian
This article analyzes the process that I call Liquid Lowering which turns high vowels $i$ and ɨ into $e$ before liquids, schematically i ɨ → e / – rl . The process began to operate in Polish in the 16th century. I look at the modern reflexes of Liquid Lowering in Standard Polish and in Kurpian, a dialect of Polish that dates back to the 17th century, and argue that the rule is dead in Standard Polish but not in Kurpian, where it is productive in …
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Derivational meanders of High Vowel Palatalization in Polish
Polish yers
This article proposes a new analysis of yers in Polish and addresses the issue of how yers should be represented. Reviving the debate started by Kiparsky (1973), the article argues that diacritic use of phonological features is superior to phonological use of diacritic features. Since diacritic representation of yers misses generalizations, yers are better represented as floating melodic segments (Rubach 1986, Kenstowicz & Rubach 1987). The patte…
Soft labial conspiracy in Kurpian
This article investigates soft labial conspiracy in Kurpian, a dialect of Polish that has not been discussed in the generative literature to date. The conspiracy involves four processes: decomposition, simplification, depalatalization, and vowel retraction. These processes are united by the goal to eliminate palatalized labials from the surface representation. The article argues against bidirectional IDENT constraints and for the tenet of Derivat…
Exceptional segments in Polish
Syllabic repairs in Macedonian
Prevocalic faithfulness
Looking at data from Polish and Ukrainian, this paper addresses the problem of positional faithfulness, in particular onset faithfulness. It is argued that onset faithfulness in its current understanding makes wrong predictions, because it extends the status of privilege to any consonant in the onset. The correct theory is more restrictive and treats as special only the segments that stand before a vowel: prevocalic faithfulness. A further restri…
Palatal nasal decomposition in Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish
This article investigates the types of palatal nasal decomposition from the perspective of three Slavic languages: Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish. The prepalatal nasal exhibits three different patterns of behaviour: retention, decomposition and depalatalization. Decomposition results in a cluster of the glide [j] and a nasal consonant. The details of this process are different in each of the three phonological systems considered, for instance,…
An Overview of Lexical Phonology
This article reviews Lexical Phonology, a theory of rules and derivations. Rules are of three types: cyclic rules, postcyclic rules, and postlexical rules. Various diagnostic properties of rules are discussed, including the phonological cycle, word vs. phrase domain application, the Strict Cyclicity Constraint, derived environments, the Structure Preservation Constraint, lexical conditioning, and the interaction of phonology and morphology. The d…
Feature Geometry from the Perspective of Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian
This article looks at two current models of feature geometry, the Halle-Sagey model as modified by Halle (2005) and the Clements-Hume model, from the perspective of palatalization and related processes in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. The Halle-Sagey model predicts that palatalization should be analyzed by assuming derivational levels and is thus at odds with the tenet of strict parallelism in Optimality Theory. In contrast, the Clements-Hume m…
Mid vowel fronting in Ukrainian
This article investigates the process of o -fronting in Ukrainian and claims that it should be analysed as an effect of P AL - e , a constraint mandating that the consonant and the vowel agree in backness. The operation of P AL - e is opaque, due to the interaction with a depalatalisation process applying before [ε]. The analysis establishes four points of theoretical interest. First, from a typological perspective, P AL - e parallels P AL - i , …
Derivation in Optimality Theory
This article argues against Burzio's (2001) reanalysis of Rubach's (2000b) glide and glottal stop insertion in the Slavic languages. It is shown that the reanalysis cannot account for the range of attested facts and that it leads to unwarranted extensions of Optimality Theory by relying on unrestricted targeted constraints. The conclusion is that Optimality Theory must admit derivational levels
Duke-of-York Derivations in Polish
This article challenges the principle of strict parallelism in Optimality Theory by providing evidence that Duke-of-York derivations, deemed to be impossible by McCarthy (2002), exist in phonology. An analysis of two independent fragments of Polish phonology, chain shifts in velar palatalization and labial fission, shows multiple Duke-of-York effects because segment inventory constraints posit conflicting requirements for the well-formedness of o…
Polish palatalization in derivational optimality theory
Against Subsegmental Glides
October 01 2002 Against Subsegmental Glides In Special Collection: CogNet Jerzy Rubach Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Linguistic Inquiry (2002) 33 (4): 672–687. https://doi.org/10.116…
Allomorphy in Optimality Theory
This article discusses IOTATION, a process that has been analyzed in generative phonology as a palatalization rule. We argue that optimality theory predicts the treatment of this process in terms of allomorphy, which in fact is desirable for a synchronic analysis. The consequence is that, with regard to iotation effects, the task of phonology is to account for the distribution of allomorphs rather than to derive them from a single underlying repr…
Backness switch in Russian
Russian exhibits several different types of palatalisation. These are exemplified in (1), where we look at voiceless stops and affricates.(1) a. Velar Palatalisation (velars change into postalveolars): k→čruk+a ‘hand (FEM NOM SG)’ −ruč+išč+a (AUG NOM SG), ruč+en’k+a (DIM NOM SG)b. Affricate Palatalisation (affricates become postalveolar): ts→čkonets ‘end’ −konč+i+t’ ‘to finish’otets ‘father’ −otč+estv+o ‘patronymic’c. Iotation (many disparate cha…
Glide and Glottal Stop Insertion in Slavic Languages
This article investigates glide and glottal stop insertion in Bulgarian, Slovak (two dialects), Polish (two dialects), and Czech. It is argued that Optimality Theory should be modified by introducing derivational levels and that OT auxiliary theories, in particular, output-output theory, MAX (Feature) theory, and sympathy theory, should be rejected
A Slovak Argument for the Onset-Rhyme Distinction
January 01 1998 A Slovak Argument for the Onset-Rhyme Distinction In Special Collection: CogNet Jerzy Rubach Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Linguistic Inquiry (1998) 29 (1): 168–179. …
Glide and Glottal Stop Insertion in Slavic Languages
This article investigates glide and glottal stop insertion in Bulgarian, Slovak (two dialects), Polish (two dialects), and Czech. It is argued that Optimality Theory should be modified by introducing derivational levels and that OT auxiliary theories, in particular, output-output theory, MAX (Feature) theory, and sympathy theory, should be rejected
Cyclic and lexical phonology
Polish palatalization in derivational optimality theory
The Phonology of Syllabic Nuclei in Slovak
The complex phonology of Slovak syllabic nuclei is studied from the twin perspectives of three-dimensional representation theory and Lexical Phonology. A variety of evidence is adduced to show the necessity of recognizing a distinct nucleus node in the internal structure of the syllable. It is also argued that Slovak syllabic nuclei are right-headed metrical structures. The well-known Slovak Rhythmic Law, shortening the first of two successive lo…
Morphological and prosodic domains in Lexical Phonology
The theory of Lexical Phonology proposed in Kiparsky (1982a) is a major step forward in generative phonology with respect to the problem of the interaction of phonology and morphology. Its basic claim is that morphological rules and word level phonological rules are interspersed. A rule of word phonology (i.e. a lexical phonological rule, which exclusively applies within words) may apply as soon as the required environment for its application has…
A grid theory of stress in polish
Edge of constituent effects in Polish
Syllabic repairs in Macedonian
Allomorphy in Optimality Theory
This article discusses IOTATION, a process that has been analyzed in generative phonology as a palatalization rule. We argue that optimality theory predicts the treatment of this process in terms of allomorphy, which in fact is desirable for a synchronic analysis. The consequence is that, with regard to iotation effects, the task of phonology is to account for the distribution of allomorphs rather than to derive them from a single underlying repr…
Polish yers
This article proposes a new analysis of yers in Polish and addresses the issue of how yers should be represented. Reviving the debate started by Kiparsky (1973), the article argues that diacritic use of phonological features is superior to phonological use of diacritic features. Since diacritic representation of yers misses generalizations, yers are better represented as floating melodic segments (Rubach 1986, Kenstowicz & Rubach 1987). The patte…
Segmental Rules of English and Cyclic Phonology
This paper is an attempt to incorporate a description of some segmental rules of English into the framework of cyclic phonology which has grown out of the classical SPE type of phonology, on the one hand, and Kiparsky's works, on the other. The discussion is organized around the problems of palatalization in American English. The rules arrived at are divided into cyclic and postcyclic types, and some predictions which follow from the proposed div…
Duke-of-York Derivations in Polish
This article challenges the principle of strict parallelism in Optimality Theory by providing evidence that Duke-of-York derivations, deemed to be impossible by McCarthy (2002), exist in phonology. An analysis of two independent fragments of Polish phonology, chain shifts in velar palatalization and labial fission, shows multiple Duke-of-York effects because segment inventory constraints posit conflicting requirements for the well-formedness of o…
Against Subsegmental Glides
October 01 2002 Against Subsegmental Glides In Special Collection: CogNet Jerzy Rubach Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Linguistic Inquiry (2002) 33 (4): 672–687. https://doi.org/10.116…
Exceptional segments in Polish
Palatal nasal decomposition in Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish
This article investigates the types of palatal nasal decomposition from the perspective of three Slavic languages: Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish. The prepalatal nasal exhibits three different patterns of behaviour: retention, decomposition and depalatalization. Decomposition results in a cluster of the glide [j] and a nasal consonant. The details of this process are different in each of the three phonological systems considered, for instance,…
Feature Geometry from the Perspective of Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian
This article looks at two current models of feature geometry, the Halle-Sagey model as modified by Halle (2005) and the Clements-Hume model, from the perspective of palatalization and related processes in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. The Halle-Sagey model predicts that palatalization should be analyzed by assuming derivational levels and is thus at odds with the tenet of strict parallelism in Optimality Theory. In contrast, the Clements-Hume m…
Lexical Phonology
Paul Kiparsky's paper (1982) ‘From Cyclic to Lexical Phonology’ is the most interesting recent development in the line of research originated by Kiparsky (1973) and Mascaró (1976). The major task in this research is the investigation of the ways in which rules apply to phonological structures. Kiparsky (1973) makes the very pointed observation that some phonological rules apply exclusively in derived environments. An environment is derived if eit…
Soft labial conspiracy in Kurpian
This article investigates soft labial conspiracy in Kurpian, a dialect of Polish that has not been discussed in the generative literature to date. The conspiracy involves four processes: decomposition, simplification, depalatalization, and vowel retraction. These processes are united by the goal to eliminate palatalized labials from the surface representation. The article argues against bidirectional IDENT constraints and for the tenet of Derivat…
An Overview of Lexical Phonology
This article reviews Lexical Phonology, a theory of rules and derivations. Rules are of three types: cyclic rules, postcyclic rules, and postlexical rules. Various diagnostic properties of rules are discussed, including the phonological cycle, word vs. phrase domain application, the Strict Cyclicity Constraint, derived environments, the Structure Preservation Constraint, lexical conditioning, and the interaction of phonology and morphology. The d…
Syllabic consonants in Polish
Chain effects in Kurpian
This article considers chain effects in Kurpian. It is observed that initial i triggers j -Insertion. The inserted [j] induces a lowering process, whereby /i/ changes into [e] or [ə], depending on the context. This change destroys the original trigger of j -Insertion, making the process opaque, as in jënteres [jəntɛrɛs] ‘interest’, which exhibits the following chain: i → ji → jə . I argue that chain effects cannot be modeled in Standard Optimalit…
Derivational meanders of High Vowel Palatalization in Polish
A Slovak Argument for the Onset-Rhyme Distinction
January 01 1998 A Slovak Argument for the Onset-Rhyme Distinction In Special Collection: CogNet Jerzy Rubach Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Linguistic Inquiry (1998) 29 (1): 168–179. …
Skeletal versus moraic representations in Slovak
Resolutions of extrasyllabicity in Slovak
This article argues that an enlightening analysis of the complicated distribution of consonants in Slovak can be given by making use of present-day theories of syllable structure. In particular, it is shown that Slovak makes use of a variety of means to save extrasyllabic consonants. The analysis also lends support to the hypothesis of continuous syllabification, and to the distinction between three types of phonological rule: cyclic, postcyclic,…
Syllabic consonants in Polish
Feature Invasion
The aim of this paper is to discuss certain non-obvious assimilation processes which take place at word boundaries. They are 'non-obvious' because it appears that the assimilation changes are not necessarily complete, i.e. rules apply partially producing transition segments which have some features of the original segment and some of the one which triggers off assimilation. This phenomenon is given the name FEATURE INVASION and is illustrated pri…
Nasalization in Polish
Non-uniqueness in phonology
Cyclic and lexical phonology
Morphological and prosodic domains in Lexical Phonology
The theory of Lexical Phonology proposed in Kiparsky (1982a) is a major step forward in generative phonology with respect to the problem of the interaction of phonology and morphology. Its basic claim is that morphological rules and word level phonological rules are interspersed. A rule of word phonology (i.e. a lexical phonological rule, which exclusively applies within words) may apply as soon as the required environment for its application has…
Segmental Rules of English and Cyclic Phonology
This paper is an attempt to incorporate a description of some segmental rules of English into the framework of cyclic phonology which has grown out of the classical SPE type of phonology, on the one hand, and Kiparsky's works, on the other. The discussion is organized around the problems of palatalization in American English. The rules arrived at are divided into cyclic and postcyclic types, and some predictions which follow from the proposed div…
Lexical Phonology
Paul Kiparsky's paper (1982) ‘From Cyclic to Lexical Phonology’ is the most interesting recent development in the line of research originated by Kiparsky (1973) and Mascaró (1976). The major task in this research is the investigation of the ways in which rules apply to phonological structures. Kiparsky (1973) makes the very pointed observation that some phonological rules apply exclusively in derived environments. An environment is derived if eit…
A grid theory of stress in polish
Abstract Vowels in Three Dimensional Phonology
A reply to Edmund Gussmann
The Phonology of Syllabic Nuclei in Slovak
The complex phonology of Slovak syllabic nuclei is studied from the twin perspectives of three-dimensional representation theory and Lexical Phonology. A variety of evidence is adduced to show the necessity of recognizing a distinct nucleus node in the internal structure of the syllable. It is also argued that Slovak syllabic nuclei are right-headed metrical structures. The well-known Slovak Rhythmic Law, shortening the first of two successive lo…
Syllable structure assignment in Polish
This study deals with syllable structure in Polish. The central theme is the question of when and how syllabification rules apply in the lexical phonology of Polish. In § i we lay the ground for our subsequent discussion by giving the basic syllable patterns of Polish. We also propose here a first version of the syllabification algorithm for Polish. In §2 we show that syllabification applies cyclically, because certain cyciic phonological rules m…
Edge of constituent effects in Polish
Resolutions of extrasyllabicity in Slovak
This article argues that an enlightening analysis of the complicated distribution of consonants in Slovak can be given by making use of present-day theories of syllable structure. In particular, it is shown that Slovak makes use of a variety of means to save extrasyllabic consonants. The analysis also lends support to the hypothesis of continuous syllabification, and to the distinction between three types of phonological rule: cyclic, postcyclic,…
The Lexical Phonology of Slovak
This book has both a descriptive and a theoretical purpose. It is the first full phonological description of Slovak, a language spoken by some four-and-a-half million people in Central and Eastern Europe; and it is a study of the theories of lexical, auto segmental, and prosodic phonology, with a particular emphasis on syllable structure. In a synthesis of these two aims, the author demonstrates how the theories can be integrated in a description…
Skeletal versus moraic representations in Slovak
Shortening and Ambisyllabicity in English
This article investigates the role of the syllable in the phonology of English. In particular, it centres on the problem of shortening and ambisyllabicity. The latter has sometimes been equated with resyllabification (Borowsky 1986; Myers 1987). In this view, ambisyllabicity is a phonetic phenomenon and it is resyllabification that plays a role in phonology. We demonstrate that shortening and ambisyllabicity/resyllabification are, counter to the …
A Slovak Argument for the Onset-Rhyme Distinction
January 01 1998 A Slovak Argument for the Onset-Rhyme Distinction In Special Collection: CogNet Jerzy Rubach Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Linguistic Inquiry (1998) 29 (1): 168–179. …
Backness switch in Russian
Russian exhibits several different types of palatalisation. These are exemplified in (1), where we look at voiceless stops and affricates.(1) a. Velar Palatalisation (velars change into postalveolars): k→čruk+a ‘hand (FEM NOM SG)’ −ruč+išč+a (AUG NOM SG), ruč+en’k+a (DIM NOM SG)b. Affricate Palatalisation (affricates become postalveolar): ts→čkonets ‘end’ −konč+i+t’ ‘to finish’otets ‘father’ −otč+estv+o ‘patronymic’c. Iotation (many disparate cha…
Glide and Glottal Stop Insertion in Slavic Languages
This article investigates glide and glottal stop insertion in Bulgarian, Slovak (two dialects), Polish (two dialects), and Czech. It is argued that Optimality Theory should be modified by introducing derivational levels and that OT auxiliary theories, in particular, output-output theory, MAX (Feature) theory, and sympathy theory, should be rejected
Allomorphy in Optimality Theory
This article discusses IOTATION, a process that has been analyzed in generative phonology as a palatalization rule. We argue that optimality theory predicts the treatment of this process in terms of allomorphy, which in fact is desirable for a synchronic analysis. The consequence is that, with regard to iotation effects, the task of phonology is to account for the distribution of allomorphs rather than to derive them from a single underlying repr…
Against Subsegmental Glides
October 01 2002 Against Subsegmental Glides In Special Collection: CogNet Jerzy Rubach Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jerzy Rubach University of Iowa/University of Warsaw Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Linguistic Inquiry (2002) 33 (4): 672–687. https://doi.org/10.116…
Duke-of-York Derivations in Polish
This article challenges the principle of strict parallelism in Optimality Theory by providing evidence that Duke-of-York derivations, deemed to be impossible by McCarthy (2002), exist in phonology. An analysis of two independent fragments of Polish phonology, chain shifts in velar palatalization and labial fission, shows multiple Duke-of-York effects because segment inventory constraints posit conflicting requirements for the well-formedness of o…
Polish palatalization in derivational optimality theory
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