Weak position constraints : the role of prosodic templates in contrast distribution
- I argue in this study that consonantal strength shifts can be explained through positional bans on features, expressed over positions marked as weak at a given level of prosodic structure, usually the metrical foo!. This approach might be characterized as "templatic" in the sense it seeks to explain positional restrictions and distributional patterns relative to independently motivated, fixed prosodic elements. In this sense, it follows Dresher & Lahiri's (1991) idea of metrical coherence in phonological systems, namely, "[T]hat grammars adhere to syllabic templates and metrical patterns of limited types, and that these patterns persist across derivations and are available to a number of different processes ... " (251). [...] The study is structured as follows: section 1 presents a typology of distributional asymmetries based on data from unrelated languages, demonstrating that the stress foot of each of these languages determines the contexts of neutralization and weakening of stops. Section 2 elaborates the notion of a template, exploring some of its formal properties, while section 3 presents templatic analyses of data from English and German. Section 4 explores the properties of weak positions, especially weak onsets, in more detail, including discussion of templates in phonological acquisition. Section 5 summarizes and concludes the study.
Author: | David J. Holsinger |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307593 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/207.html |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | Investigations in prosodic phonology : the role of the foot and the phonological word / Ed. by T. A. Hall ; Marzena Rochoń, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 19 |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Phonologie; Prosodie; Kontrastive Linguistik |
Volume: | 19 |
Page Number: | 27 |
First Page: | 91 |
Last Page: | 117 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 381206831 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology | |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 19 = Investigations in prosodic phonology : The role of the foot and the phonological word |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306617 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |