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| Title: | Sympathy Theory and German Truncations |
| Authors: | Junko Ito, Armin Mester |
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| Length: | 22 |
| Abstract: | Sympathy Theory and German Truncations Junko Ito & Armin Mester University of California, Santa Cruz Phonological opacity, in the proposal of McCarthy 1997, arises through constraints on a new type of correspondence relation holding within the candidate set that Gen produces for a given input, i.e., a relation between co-candidates. A candidate may win because it is in sympathy with a particular failed co-candidate, one that is optimal with respect to a specific lower-ranking constraint. This paper presents independent evidence for Sympathy by arguing that, enriched with the new notion, Optimality Theory can explain a certain type of prosodic-morphological formations requiring access to virtual forms accessible neither in the input in the output. The empirical focus throughout is a productive pattern of truncation in contemporary German deriving hypocoristics and other kinds of shortenings. In a broader vein, it is suggested that with the inclusion of Sympathy, the power of Output-Output constraints can be drastically reduced, leading to a simpler overall theory. |
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| Article: | Version 1 |