| ROA: | 407 |
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| Title: | Dominance Effects as Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness |
| Authors: | John Alderete |
| Comment: | Published in Phonology 18, pp. 201-253 |
| Length: | 52 |
| Abstract: | Dominance Effects as Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness John Alderete, Rutgers University This paper presents a theory of morphophonology based on a development in the theory of faithfulness constraints in Optimality Theory. A new constraint type, anti-faithfulness, is proposed that evaluates a pair of related words and requires an alternation in the shared stem. This constraint type is motivated initially by a set of problems, e.g. morphological deletions, segmental exchanges and non-structure preserving processes, which show that morphophonology must encompass more than markedness-faithfulness interactions. The anti-faithfulness thesis is then applied to accentual processes in which affixes idiosyncratically cause deletion of accent in a neighbouring morpheme. It is argued that anti-faithfulness both motivates the observed deletion and accounts for its properties with principles that are generally available in phonological theory. Anti-faithfulness is then shown to extend naturally to the analysis of other affix-induced alternations, including accent insertions, shifts, and retractions of stress and tone, a result which distinguishes this theory from plausible alternatives. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology,Morphology |
| Article: | Version 1 |