Phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory
One major research question in Optimality Theory (OT) that directly tackles phenomena at the interface of phonology and morphology is whether or not the model should allow intermediate levels of representation. This chapter addresses this discussion by presenting phenomena from Romance languages tha...
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| Format: | Book chapter |
| Publication date: | 2016 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repository: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:284508 |
| Online Access: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/284508 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1515/9783110311860-007 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Allomorphy Optimality Theory Paradigms Parallelism Serialism |
| Summary: | One major research question in Optimality Theory (OT) that directly tackles phenomena at the interface of phonology and morphology is whether or not the model should allow intermediate levels of representation. This chapter addresses this discussion by presenting phenomena from Romance languages that challenge the parallel version of OT in order to contrast the additional mechanisms proposed to maintain parallelism (especially, several kinds of output-to-output constraints and alignment constraints) with the analyses provided within different serial (stratal, derivational or cyclic) versions of OT. A further issue discussed in the light of parallel and serial versions of OT is the mechanism for phonologically conditioned allomorph selection. The data include, among other things, French adjectival liaison, definite article allomorphy in Galician and Italian, Spanish diphthongization, vowel reduction and epenthesis in Catalan, and palatalization in Romanian. |
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