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| Title: | Yucatec Maya Vowel Alternations - Harmony as Syntagmatic Identity |
| Authors: | Martin Krämer |
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| Length: | 37 |
| Abstract: | Yucatec Maya Vowel Alternations - Harmony as Syntagmatic Identity Martin Krämer Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf In this paper, I will give a detailed account of vowel harmony, disharmony, dissimilation, and elision in Yucatec Maya. These phenomena provide insights for the treatment of assimilation in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993). The theoretical topics to be dealt with are (i) an adequate formalisation of phonological feature assimilation within Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995), and (ii) an account of morpheme- specific alternations within this framework. I will argue that harmony, or assimilation in general, surfaces due to a Faithfulness constraint family, 'Syntagmatic Identity', which establishes a correspondence relation between segmental or prosodic entities of the same type within one representation. To appear in Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 20.2 |
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