| ROA: | 239 |
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| Title: | Derived Environment Effects in OT |
| Authors: | Anna Lubowicz |
| Comment: | 40 pages. Word and RTF files require SIL IPA fonts |
| Length: | 40 |
| Abstract: | Derived Environment Effects in OT Anna Lubowicz University of Massachusetts, Amherst The theory of Lexical Phonology, by means of the Strict Cycle Condition (SCC), limits cyclic rule application to derived environments which are created by either morpheme concatenation or prior rule application (Mascaro 1976, Kiparsky 1982a). This paper shows how these derived environment effects can be understood within the Optimality Theory framework. In my proposal I make use of the mechanism of Local Conjunction (LC) in the sense of Smolensky (1993, 1995). The basic idea is that an otherwise low-ranked markedness constraint is activated by a faithfulness constraint with which it is locally conjoined. The predictions made by the LC account of derived environment effects differ significantly from the standard SCC, but show interesting similarities with the Underspecification model of Kiparsky (1993). |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |