Nothing is a phonological fact : Gaps and repairs at the phonology - morphology interface ∗ Curt Rice CASTL

The paper discusses phonologically motivated gaps in inflectional paradigms and builds further on the analysis in Rice (2005). In that paper, we see an approach to modeling gaps based on a tension between markedness constraints, faithfulness constraints, and constraints which require the expression of morphological categories. Here we explore the prediction that constraints requiring the expression of different categories can vary in their relative ranking to faithfulness. Hence the approach predicts that the same phonotactic problem may be solved by a repair in one morphological context and by a gap in another. This prediction is illustrated and further implications are explored.