Syllabification in Armenian, Universal Grammar, and the Lexicon  

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Vaux, Bert

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 34 no. 1 (2003), page 91-125.
Topik: syllabification; morphology-phonology interface; lexicon; Armenian
Fulltext: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 91-125.pdf (3.47MB)

Isi artikel

This article approaches from a new angle the question of the extent to which predictable information is stored in the lexicon. By examining the ways in which morphological phenomena can be sensitive to pro- sodic structure, I argue that some-but not all-predictable informa- tion is stored in lexical entries. Detailed analysis of a fragment of the Armenian phonological system, focusing on the behavior of conso- nants at morpheme edges, supports a more abstract view of phonologi- cal representations (containing syllables, appendices, and unparsed segments) than can be inferred from phonetic facts alone, contra Ohala and Kawasaki-Fukumori (1997), Steriade (1999), Scheer (2002), and others. The Armenian facts furthermore indicate that attempts to aban- don underlying representations (Flemming 1995, Burzio 1996) are misguided and that we must also retreat from the excessively abstract underspecification approaches advocated by most phonologists.

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