Segmental Blocking in Dissimilation: An Argument for Co-Occurrence Constraints
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https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v4i0.3972Keywords:
Dissimilation, Blocking, Optimality TheoryAbstract
Most contemporary work assumes that dissimilation is motivated by featural co-occurrence constraints: a process that maps /X...X/ to [X...Y] (for example) is explained by positing a ban on co-occurring [X]s (e.g. Alderete 1997, Suzuki 1998; though cf. Bennett 2015). I show how this approach can be extended to analyze the typology of segmental blocking effects in long-distance consonant dissimilation, and provide evidence from lexical statistics in support of the analysis. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed analysis makes more accurately restrictive predictions than available alternatives.Downloads
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2017-05-09
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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 3.0 license.