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| Title: | Relativized Contiguity, Part I: Contiguity and Syllable Prosody |
| Authors: | Greg Lamontagne |
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| Length: | 61 |
| Abstract: | Theories of syllabic prosody make broad predictions concerning the modification of strings: they indicate when a particular consonant (or vowel) of a sequence should delete and when a segment should be inserted. The more narrow issues of determining which segment of a CC/VV sequence actually deletes or where the epenthetic segment is to be realized is often left unexplained or subjected to a number of non-uniform analyses. The common thread between these processes is that they all involve a disruption of Contiguity requirements. Once the formal nature of Contiguity restrictions is understood, a truly general explanation of string modification processes can be attained. In this study it is proposed that Contiguity restrictions are relativized to prosodic domains like the syllable. It is from this conception of Contiguity requirements as relativized constraints in an Optimality Theoretic grammar that a cross-linguistic account of phonotactic patterns emerges. Here the effects of truncation and augmentation processes receive a unified account in so much as they result from the predictions of the factorial typology of conflicting Contiguity constraints. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |