| ROA: | 99 |
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| Title: | Prosodic Faithfulness and Correspondence |
| Authors: | Junko Ito, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Armin Mester |
| Comment: | Superseded by ROA-146. 66 pp. |
| Length: | 66 |
| Abstract: | Prosodic Faithfulness and Correspondence ROA-99 (66pp.) prosfaith.ps Junko Ito, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, & Armin Mester UC Santa Cruz, Indiana Univ., & UC Santa Cruz ito@ling.ucsc.edu kitagawa@indiana.edu mester@ling.ucsc.edu This paper develops a comprehensive optimality-theoretic analysis of a Japanese reversing argot. Just as unmarked properties of a language often assert themselves in reduplicative structures, the argot exhibits the optimal (unmarked) prosodic structures of Japanese, within the limits imposed by the game-specific reversal requirement. The latter is defined in correspondence-theoretic terms, as cross- anchoring, by a slight extension of anchoring constraints characteristic of the normal phonological grammar. Under the pressure of cross-anchoring and high-ranking prosodic form constraints, argot formation distorts the base in the minimal way, otherwise echoing it as faithfully as possible, where faithfulness is measured not only in segmental and moraic units, but also in terms of foot-structural roles. An important result of the study is that the notion of "minimal distortion" operative in argot formation turns out to be none else but the principle of minimal violation of a set of ranked constraints, the fundamental tenet of Optimality Theory. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | This article has been withdrawn. |