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| Title: | Morpheme-level Features: Chaoyang Syllable Structure and Nasalization |
| Authors: | Moira Yip |
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| Length: | 15 |
| Abstract: | Morpheme-level Features: Chaoyang Syllable Structure and Nasalization ROA-81 chao-nas.wp6. (1994: 15pp.) Moira Yip University of California, Irvine myip@orion.oac.uci.edu In Chaoyang, the features [constricted glottis] ([c.g.]) and [nasal] are specified at the level of the morpheme, and distributed within the syllable in conformity with a set of ranked and violable output constraints. Coda consonants consist of Place features alone, and surface as voiceless glottalized stops if the syllable carries [c.g.], and as nasals if the syllable is not [c.g.]. The constraints governing [nasal] require that [nasal] be realized, that rhymes and syllables harmonize for [nasal], but that [nasal] may not associate to segments unmarked for [voice]. The interaction of these constraints means that in certain syllable types nasality surfaces on the entire syllable, in others on the rhyme only, in others on the onset only, and that in a final class nasality does not surface at all. The analysis of [c..g.] and [nasal] as morpheme-level features explains a pattern of segment loss in reduplication, where it is shown that the retained features of tone, [c.g.], and [nasal] are exactly the morpheme-level features of the language. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
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| Article: | Version 1 |