The Morphology-Phonology Connection

Deficits in phonology and past-tense morphology: What s the connection?

Neuropsychological dissociations between regular and irregular past tense verb processing have been explained in two ways: (a) separate mechanisms of a rule-governed process for regular verbs and a lexical-associative process for irregular verbs; (b) a single system drawing on phonological and semantic knowledge. The latter account invokes phonological impairment as the basis of poorer performa...

Planar Phonology and Morphology

Sign-Based Morphology and Phonology

Sign-Based Morphology and Phonology with special attention to Optimality Theory In this dissertation, I develop Sign-Based Morphology, a novel, comprehensive, declarative theory of the phonology-morphology interface. Theories of morphology are traditionally assigned one of the following classifications: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process, and Word-and-Paradigm. Sign-Based Morphology shares ...

The acquisition of prosodic phonology and morphology

Edge Asymmetries in Phonology and Morphology

(1) (a) Positional Preservation: Underlying phonological material can resist neutralization at the left edge of a constituent, but not at the right edge. (Trubetzkoy 1939:228ff, Casali 1997, Beckman 1998) (b) Iambic Footing Asymmetry: Iambic feet are almost always parsed from left to right − not rightto-left. e.g. [(σσ")(σσ")σ], *[σ(σσ")(σσ")]. (Hayes 1985, 1995) (c) Prefix-Suffix Asymmetry: At...