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ROA:725
Title:Expressing inflection tonally
Authors:Marc van Oostendorp
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Length:21
Abstract:The difference between neuter and feminine agreement on adjectives is expressed by a difference in lexical tone. This paper argues that this distinction is due to a difference in underlying representations en not to a paradigmatic antifaithfulness effect. In particular, it argues for a specific version of REALIZE-MORPHEME, the constraint demanding every underlying morpheme to be present in phonological surface representations. The key argument is that a schwa suffix turns up whenever the tonal change from neuter to feminine is not possible.
Type:Paper/tech report
Area/Keywords:Phonology,Morphology
Article:Version 1