Deriving the Feature-Filling/Feature-Changing Contrast: An Application to Hungarian Vowel Harmony  

Oleh:

Reiss, Charles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 34 no. 2 (2003), page 199-224.
Topik: underspecification; Hungarian vowel harmony; subsump- tion; structural descriptions; phonological rules; conciseness
Fulltext: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 199-224.pdf (2.62MB)

Isi artikel

The article explores an alternative to the interpretive procedure adopted in SPE and proposes a unified interpretive procedure for all languages. The proposal solves long-standing problems by making it unnecessary to refer to a third value of binary features [0F], to introduce negation into lexical representations (e.g., [NOT + rd]), or to introduce afeature fillinglfeature changing diacritic on rules. The article provides a metric for comparing extensionally equivalent rule systems and argues that the most concise formulation is not always the correct one, by appeal- ing to crosslinguistic evidence. The proposal is illustrated by applica- tion to the target/trigger relations in Hungarian vowel harmony.

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