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| Title: | Bantu Tone spreading and displacement as alignment and minimal misalignment |
| Authors: | Lee S. Bickmore |
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| Length: | 39 |
| Abstract: | Drawing on mostly Bantu data, I examine an array of tonal phenomena including bounded and unbounded displacement and spreading, focusing on those phenomena which have few if any non-tonal counterparts. I utilize a small number of arguably universal constraints which depending on their ranking yield the attested tone patterns. The account here does not necessitate any overlay of metrical structure and makes no explicit reference to association lines themselves. I crucially rely on the interplay between ALIGN and *ALIGN constraints, which I propose must be able to target not only edges, but the edges of peripheral feature bearing units (cf. Idsardi 1992). The ALIGN and *ALIGN constraints sometimes relate output High Tone Spans (HTS) to morphological constituents and sometimes relate the input and output of a single HTS. Give this latter point, I propose that ALIGN and *ALIGN can be formalized in such a way as to fit into a slightly modified form of McCarthy's (1995) constraint schema developed to account for rule opacity effects. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |