| ROA: | 561 |
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| Title: | Constraint universality and prosodic phrasing in Maori |
| Authors: | Paul de Lacy |
| Comment: | To appear in A.Carpenter, A.Coetzee, and P.de Lacy (eds.) Papers in Optimality Theory II. Amherst: GLSA. |
| Length: | 20 |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the notion that all constraints are present in all grammars (‘Universality’). For any pair of constraints, Universality is shown to produce four types of system, differing in terms of the constraints’ activity (i.e. visible effect). Conditions on the typological predictions are identified, building on Samek-Lodovici (1996, 1998a,b). The empirical focus is the Polynesian language Maori, for which it is argued that both left and right edges of lexical syntactic phrases align with the left and right edges of Phonological Phrases respectively. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology |
| Article: | Version 1 |