Drawing the krtań

Laryngeal alternations in Polish

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ID19572791
AuthorsAndrew Lamont (0000-0002-8395-2212, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume5
Publication date2018-02-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2377-3324 • E-ISSN: 2377-3324
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/amp.v5i0.4234
OpenAlexW2793591081
LanguageEN
References cited11

Polish exhibits the cross-linguistically common processes of final devoicing and voice assimilation. Notably, these target not only obstruents and obstruent clusters, but also certain obstruent-sonorant clusters. This paper argues for an analysis in Harmonic Serialism where sonorants acquire laryngeal nodes, thereby becoming susceptible to the same constraints that act on obstruents. There is an asymmetry between OS#O clusters, which show assimilation, and O#SO clusters, which do not. The analysis captures this asymmetry with positional faithfulness constraints on word-initial sonorants. The analysis also straightforwardly models other patterns in Polish and neatly captures a dialectal difference between Warsaw and Cracow Polish with a single constraint reranking

Asymmetry · Geometry · Linguistics · Obstruent · Optimality theory · Phonology · Physics · Speech recognition · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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