| ROA: | 253 |
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| Title: | Root-Controlled Accent in Cupeño |
| Authors: | John Alderete |
| Comment: | Has appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19: 455-502; published version available at: (http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~alderete/cupeno_nllt19.pdf) |
| Length: | 35 |
| Abstract: | Root-Controlled Accent in Cupeño John Alderete Rutgers University Recent work on the nature of faithfulness constraints in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) has proposed distinct faithfulness constraints for roots and affixes. The distinction between root and affix faithfulness has been employed in the analysis of the privileged status of roots in a variety of phonological systems, such as root-controlled vowel harmony. In this article, I argue that this distinction is equally important in explaining the observation in Cupeño that inherent accent in roots takes precedence over inherent accent in affixes. In addition, morphologically dispersed faithfulness is shown to be instrumental in extending the analysis beyond previous accounts, providing the right tools for the analysis of pre-accentuation and the special phonology of the nominalizer suffix. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology, Morphology |
| Article: | Version 1 |