| ROA: | 160 |
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| Title: | Austronesian Nasal Substitution and Other NC Effects |
| Authors: | Joe Pater |
| Comment: | 43 pages. Supersedes ROA 92-0000 |
| Length: | 43 |
| Abstract: | Austronesian Nasal Substitution and Other NC Effects Joe Pater McGill University The paper analyzes Indonesian/Malay nasal substitution (i.e. meN+pilih -> memilih, but meN+beli -> membeli) as fusion of the nasal and voiceless obstruent, driven by a phonetically motivated constraint that disallows nasal/voiceless obstruent clusters (*NC). Through reranking *NC with faithfulness constraints, a typology of NC effects, including nasal deletion, post-nasal voicing, and denasalization, is produced. Particularly striking evidence for the need to formally express the relationship between these processes is provided by conspiracies between NC effects, where *NC is satisfied in one way in one environment (e.g. post-nasal voicing word-medially), and in another way in another context(e.g. nasal substitution word-initially). Topics of more general concern dealt with in the paper include the formulation of segmental and featural faithfulness constraints in the Correspondence Theory of McCarthy and Prince (1995), as well as the influence of morphology on non-prosodic phonology. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |