Berent, Steriade, Lennertz, and Vaknin (2007) [Berent, I., Steriade, D., Lennertz, T., & Vaknin, V. (2007). What we know about what we have never heard: evidence from perceptual illusions. Cognition, 104, 591–630] demonstrate that English speakers’ perception of onsets that are unattested in their language mirrors their typological markedness. We suggest that these findings might reflect the pr...

The Correspondence model of base-reduplicant identity (McCarthy & Prince 1995, to appear) makes the prediction that any kind of segmental phonological process may result in any of these situations through ranking of phonological constraints with faithfulness constraints on the input and output and the basereduplicant relationship. Normal application arises when base-reduplicant faithfulness con...

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 expres...

Many modern Arabic dialects exhibit asymmetries in the direction of emphasis (for most dialects, pharyngealization) spread. In a dialect of Yemeni Arabic, emphasis has two articulatory correlates, pharyngealization and labialization: within the phonological word, pharyngealization spreads predominantly leftward, and labialization spreads rightward, targetingshort high vowels. Since asymmetries ...

This paper presents a new finite-state model of Optimality Theory (OT). In this model, two assumptions are imposed on the OT framework. Firstly, I adopt the Harmonic Serialism version of OT, in which output forms are derived from input forms via a series of incremental changes. Secondly, constraints are assumed to be strictly local in the sense that each markedness constraint specifies a set of...

This paper subjects the GB parametric account of variation in Slavic numeral systems put forward in Franks (1995) to critical scrutiny from the perspective of minimalism. It is argued that the true nature of the variation lies in the case contexts in which QPs (phrases in which GEN-Q is assigned) can occur in the different languages. It is further argued that this variation is best understood i...

Locative inversion verbs seem to share the same argument structure and grammatical function assignment (i.e., ) cross-linguistically. This article discusses the nature of argument-function linking in LFG and demonstrates how the Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT) rendered in Optimality-Theoretic (OT) terms, where argument-function linking is governed by universal violable constraints...

I prove that there are phonological patterns which are expressible by ordered rewrite rules but not by any Optimality Theoretic (OT) grammar whose constraint set contains only markedness constraints and single–state faithfulness constraints, i.e. faithfulness constraints that assign violation marks to pairs of single input–output segments in correspondence, with no reference to other segments i...

This paper is an analysis of the claim that a universal ban on certain (‘anti-markedness’) grammars is necessary in order to explain their non-occurrence in the languages of the world. To assess the validity of this hypothesis I examine the implications of one sound change (a > ) for learning in a specific phonological domain (stress assignment), making explicit assumptions about the type of d...

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