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| Title: | Stress preservation in German loan-words |
| Authors: | Birgit Alber |
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| Length: | 32 |
| Abstract: | Stress preservation in German loan-words Birgit Alber University of Marburg In this paper I give an analysis of stress preservation in German loan-words in terms of output-output correspondence, following work by Benua 1995, McCarthy 1995, Pater 1995, Kenstowicz 1996, Kager (forthcoming), among others. I show that in German stress can be preserved after suffixation at the cost of certain stress pattern constraints, but not of others. Thus, stress preservation is non-uniform in German loan-words, a fact easily accounted for in OT by the medial ranking of a faithfulness constraint requiring identity between suffixed and underived form cf. Pater 1995 for a similar account of English). The approach based on violable constraints is compared to a derivational approach in terms of cyclicity showing that the former is more restrictive in its predictions. Thus, an approach to stress preservation in terms of a faithfulness constraint integrated into the hierarchy of stress pattern constraints makes precise predictions as to the effects of stress preservation on the overall stress system of the language. In German loan-words, the constraint responsible for stress preservation is ranked below the constraint Align (PrWd, L, Ft, L), but above the weight-to- stress principle (WSP). Thus, all stress pattern constraints ranked below the WSP are predicted to be violated when stress preservation is at stake while all constraints ranked above Align (PrWd, L, Ft, L) are predicted to remain active regardless of the requirements of stress preservation. The second part of the paper shows that these predictions are indeed borne out. A brief comparison between German and English stress preservation, based on Pater (1995) concludes the paper. This paper was published as: Alber (1998), "Stress preservation in German loan-words", in: Wolfgang Kehrein & Richard Wiese (eds.), Phonology and Morphology of the Germanic Languages, Tuebingen: Niemeyer, pp. 113-141 |
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