In this paper we examine the phonotactics of consonant clusters in Moenat Ladin terms their markedness and temporal coordination. word-initial include sibilant-stop (SC), stop-/r/ (Cr), stop-/l/ (Cl), sibilant-stop-/r/ (SCr). However, despite SC Cl sequences being well-formed Moenat, sibilant-stop-/l/ (SCl) are almost entirely unattested. We hypothesize that rarity SCl owes to a cumulative effe...

Recent advances in Optimality Theoretic syntax reveal that the basic analytic concepts and formal machinery developed in OT phonology, such as a notion of markedness, the nature of constraints (functional/typological/cognitive grounding) and constraint interaction, harmonic alignment and constraint conjunction, and edge alignment, can be fruitfully applied to the domain of syntax, and they prov...

One of the fundamental observations of linguistic theory is that linguistic elements do not interact over arbitrarily great distances. Instead, relations obtain locally. This conviction would seem trivial if all phonological interaction were obviously confined to adjacent segments, or all syntactic relations to adjacent words. In reality, the assumption of locality requires work for those assum...