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1042-0809 
 Local blocking and minimal violation
Author 
 Eric Bakovic UC San Diego <bakovic@ling.ucsd.edu> [Details]
Comment 
To appear in Proceedings of CLS 45.
Length 
10 pp.
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Abstract 
 



The Elsewhere Condition (Kiparsky 1973, 1982) blocks a rule B from applying when a more specific rule A has applied. Attested cases of EC-blocking are local: B is blocked from applying only to the specific elements within a form to which A has applied, as opposed to being globally blocked from applying to all elements in a form only some of which A has applied to. This locality follows from the minimal violation property of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993).
Keywords 
 the Elsewhere Condition, blocking, rule ordering, constraint ranking, assimilation, neutralization, deletion, Spanish, Diola Fogny
Area 
 Phonology, Formal Analysis
Type 
 Conference Proceedings Chapter
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