In this paper, I examine formal properties of surface correspondence and their empirical predictions for languages with partially overlapping harmony patterns. Surface correspondence was introduced as a basis for enforcing feature agreement and disagreement among segments in an output (Walker 2000a). Originating studies focused on consonant harmony, for which surface correspondence offered insi...

The Australian Aboriginal language Arrernte has four coronal consonants in the stop, nasal and lateral series. This paper presents EPG data for the four coronal stops of Arrernte in inter-vocalic context for one female speaker of the language. Results show comparatively little variability in the laminal articulations, and comparatively greater variability in the apical articulations. An interes...

the third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to english verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among persian enclitic forms of the verb “boudan” (to be); it changes to [as] in one environment, to [s] in another, and to [e] in four environments. deletion of /t/ is common in all six contexts. these different pronunciations are determined by various...

Drawing on a two-million-word corpus of Sanskrit, the article documents and analyzes two previously unrecognized generalizations concerning the morphoprosodic conditioning of retroflex spreading (nati). Both reveal harmony to be attenuated across the left boundaries of roots (i.e., between a prefix and a root or between members of a compound), in the sense that while harmony applies across thes...

Drawing on a two-million-word corpus of Sanskrit, two previously unrecognized generalizations are documented and analyzed concerning the morpho-prosodic conditioning of retroflex spreading (nati). Both reveal prefixes to be weak triggers in the sense that while prefixes trigger harmony, their access to targets is more restricted than that of non-prefix triggers, as analyzed here through the ‘ga...

The phenomenon of child-specific phonological processes represents a longstanding challenge for efforts to arrive at a coherent model of phonological development. These processes may be robustly attested in the speech of typically developing children, yet extensive cross-linguistic investigation reveals no counterpart in adult phonological typology. Developmental consonant harmony (DCH) is one ...

Error patterns in children's phonological development are often described as simplifying processes that can interact with one another with different consequences. Some interactions limit the applicability of an error pattern, and others extend it to more words. Theories predict that error patterns interact to their full potential. While specific interactions have been documented for certain pai...

This study represents an attempt to sketch a processing model of phonological development in children acquiring their first language. The investigation is framed within a local connectionist network in which activation spreads between levels and inhibition within levels. Three ways are focused on in which an emergent processing system may diverge from a fully developed one—hypoactivation (too l...