| ROA: | 124 |
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| Title: | Exceptions and static phonological patterns: cophonologies vs. prespecification |
| Authors: | Sharon Inkelas, Orhan Orgun, Cheryl Zoll |
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| Length: | 33 |
| Abstract: | Exceptions and static phonological patterns: cophonologies vs. prespecification ROA-124 33 pages subreg.ps, --.rtf, --.word6 Sharon Inkelas, Orhan Orgun, Cheryl Zoll U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Berkeley, U. Iowa inkelas@cogsci.berkeley.edu orgun@cogsci.berkeley.edu cheryl-zoll@uiowa.edu In this paper, we argue that treating partial static distributional regularities should not be handled by assigning each distributional regularity to a stratum of the lexicon that has its own phonological system (examples of the approach we argue against are the use of rule features in derivational theories and the use of parochial constraint ranking in recent works in Optimality Theory). The methodology we argue for gives rise to what has been called "convenient underspecification" by Steriade 1995 and "naive underspecification" by Mester and Ito 1989. As these works have shown, there is no principled way within derivational theories to obtain the desired underlying forms. Underspecification is then used in an ad-hoc fashion. As Inkelas 1994 has argued, and as we also show in this paper, archiphonemic underspecification (our term for this way of determining URs) is empirically required by three-way alternations. Furthermore, within OT, archiphonemic underspecification can be achieved in a principled manner through Lexicon Optimization (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Thus, OT is able to achieve a principled account of static regularities and exceptions, while past derivational theories had to resort to ad-hoc stipulation. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
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