Automatic Alternations in Non-Transformational Phonology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2900404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grover Hudson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/412644 |
| OpenAlex | W2328797445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
Automatic alternations, those traditionally understood to be required by phonetic structure, have not been a part of transformational generative phonologies, where alternations are described by feature-changing P-rules. ‘Conspiracies’, the justification of two or more alternation P-rules by some requirement of phonetic structure, have also gone unexpressed. Phonetic structure is properly expressed by non-transformational, non-directional neutralization rules, of which alternation P-rules are partial repetitions. Automatic alternations can be considered alternations of completely with incompletely specified phonemes, resulting from a neutralization of features. If the features subject to neutralization are so marked in lexical entries, this effectively represents the automatic allomorphs, permitting the non-directional phonetic-structure rules to accomplish automatic alternations by selecting the correct alternants in environments of neutralization. (An illustration of this is an automatic-alternation conspiracy in Kambata, a language of Ethiopia—resulting from historical assimilations, vowel deletion, and metathesis.) The result is a non-transformational phonology consistent with the general tendency of leveling—one in which automatic alternations, conspiracies, and all non-controversial generalizations are expressed in a grammar which prohibits ordered rules and requires that all rules and representations be surface-true
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2008 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |