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453-0701 
Head Dependence in Stress-Epenthesis Interaction
Author 
John Alderete Simon Fraser University <alderete@sfu.ca> [Details]
Comment 
In Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp., 29-50.
Length 
19 pp.
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Abstract 


This paper is a distilled version of Alderete 1995 (ROA 94). It employs the same theory of stress and syllabification developed in that paper; through the interaction of the positional faithfulness constraint, Head-Dep, with other stress-related constraints, non-derivational analyses are given of a set of logically possible stress-epenthesis interactions. The empirical coverage of this theory is then extended to the case of Yimas (Papuan), a case relevant to the comparison of the proposed theory with the rule-based analysis of the same phenomena. In Yimas, epenthetic vowels are generally not stressed, so, Head-Dep, which bans stressed epenthetic syllables, is suitably high-ranked in the grammar. However, a two-syllable stress window compels violation of Head-Dep, because epenthetic vowels may in fact be stressed in certain contexts, namely in words whose first two syllables have epenthetic vowels. In the rule-based approach, this dual patterning requires that two separate epenthesis rules be ordered with respect to stress assignment, which leads to loss of generalization. The paper closes with a summary of results in recent work that employ other forms of position-sensitive faithfulness targeting prosodic heads.
Keywords 
 stress, syllabification, epenthesis, prosodic heads, faithfulness, positional faithfulness, correspondence, rules, serialism, non-uniformity, Dakota, Selayarese, Swahili, Yimas
Area 
 Phonology
Type 
 Manuscript
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