| ROA: | 575 |
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| Title: | Word-Final Onsets |
| Authors: | John Harris, Edmund Gussman |
| Comment: | |
| Length: | 42 |
| Abstract: | A word-final consonant is standardly assumed to occupy a syllable coda. An alternative is to treat it as the onset of a syllable containing a phonetically unexpressed nucleus. The final-onset analysis is shown to out-perform the final-coda analysis on a range of phonological phenomena, including syllable typology, stress, vowel length, and consonant phonotactics. A constraint-based implementation of the final-onset analysis provides a straightforward treatment of the typological facts. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology |
| Article: | Version 1 |