Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Modern Hebrew Verbal System: Alignment Constraints in Verb Formation
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of alignment in the verbal system of Modern Hebrew (MH). Certain phenomena within the verbal system of MH involve interaction between morphological and phonological processes. I will show that two seemingly unrelated phenomena, namely the shape of the outputs of verb formation processes on the one hand, and stress alternations on the other hand, are both subject to a number of alignment constraints (as discussed in McCarthy & Prince, 1993b) which impose a certain relation between phonological elements and morphological elements.
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تاریخ انتشار 1994