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| Title: | Exceptional stress-attracting suffixes in Turkish: representations vs. the grammar |
| Authors: | Sharon Inkelas |
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| Length: | 34 |
| Abstract: | Exceptional stress-attracting suffixes in Turkish: representations vs. the grammar'' ROA-39 turkstress.ps, --.rtf Sharon Inkelas Department of Linguistics UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Generative phonology has wrestled since its inception with the question of whether, for some given phenomenon, that phenomenon should be handled in the grammar or in the lexicon. The specific phenomenon addressed in this paper is exceptional stress in Turkish. Turkish exhibits two regular stress patterns which apply in complementary morphological contexts. Stressed and prestressing suffixes, as well as stressed roots are exceptions to each pattern. Simply put, in a word containing one or more exceptional morphemes, the leftmost such morpheme determines the stress of the entire word. I compare two approaches to these data, one in which exceptional morphemes are underlyingly associated with a stress foot, and another in which all exceptional morphemes are affiliated with Alignment constraints specifying that they line up with a stress foot in the output. I conclude that the former approach is more explanatory than the latter; the former can account for all stress patterns in the language using a trochaic foot, while the latter requires the use of all manner of Alignment constraints, failing to capture any regularities in the distribution (and behavior) of exceptional stress. This conclusion has implications for the study of templatic morphology generally. An underlying stress foot is formally equivalent to a prosodic template; the fact that such structures are needed for Turkish calls into question the move to eliminate all metrical templates from prosodic morphology in favor of Alignment constraints, a proposal made by McCarthy and Prince 1994. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
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| Article: | Version 1 |