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| Title: | Derived environment effects in Colloquial Helsinki Finnish |
| Authors: | Arto Anttila |
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| Length: | 38 |
| Abstract: | Derived environment effects in Colloquial Helsinki Finnish Arto Anttila Boston University Derived environment behavior is unlikely to be a property of phonological rules of any kind. Reference to global properties of grammar seems inevitable. The evidence comes from a quantitative study of optional Vowel Coalescence in Colloquial Helsinki Finnish based on a corpus of approximately 13,000 naturally occurring vowel sequences. The coalescence rule is blocked in nonderived environments, but only in phonologically and morphologically marked contexts, and dispreferred in derived environments in exactly the same contexts. This mixed behavior arises from the interaction of optimality-theoretic constraints and the assumption that grammars are partial orderings. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |