Overshoot in licensing-driven harmony

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ID20399753
AuthorsAaron Kaplan (0000-0001-5626-0897, University of Utah, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume36
Issue4
Pages605-626
Publication date2019-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhonology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-6757 • E-ISSN: 1469-8188
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0952675719000319
OpenAlexW3002767118
LanguageEN
References cited17

Kaplan (2018a) argues for a positive and gradient version of positional licensing in Harmonic Grammar. A chief difference between this formalism and standard positional licensing is that it predicts that harmony whose goal is to place a feature in a licensing position may overshoot its target by extending beyond the licensing position. Centralisation harmony in Tudanca Montañés bears out this prediction: though harmony triggered by a final vowel typically stops at the stressed syllable, under particular circumstances it extends into the pretonic domain. Positive gradient positional licensing is indispensable in an account of this. It plays a central role in a gang effect that drives overshoot, an interaction that cannot be replicated with standard versions of positional licensing

Art · Cognitive psychology · Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Speech recognition · Telecommunications · Vowel · Vowel harmony · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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