Opaque distributional generalisations in Tundra Nenets

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ID20399720
AutoresPeter Staroverov (0000-0003-1141-4674, Wayne State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas297-328
Data de publicação2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhonology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-6757 • E-ISSN: 1469-8188
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0952675720000135
OpenAlexW3048643074
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas54

Based on primary data from Tundra Nenets, this paper explores phonological patterns which seem to require restrictions on the input, and thus present a particular challenge to Optimality Theory. In these patterns, a contrastive segment appears only in the environments where it is also derived by active alternations in the language. I illustrate this with the behaviour of Tundra Nenets /k/, and argue that these patterns can be analysed as distributional generalisations that hold only at early derivational levels. A Stratal OT analysis is proposed. Tundra Nenets also presents a pattern which appears to involve unnatural classes, but is reanalysed with only natural class alternations in my account

Archaeology · Arctic · Biology · Geography · Linguistics · Optimality theory · Phonology · Tundra · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology