Non-optimal onsets in Chamicuro: an inventory maximised in coda position  

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Parker, Steve

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 3 (Dec. 2001), page 361-386.
Fulltext: Parker_Steve.pdf (304.01KB)

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The widely attested onset}coda asymmetry involves a situation in which the inventory of phonemes in syllable-®nal position in a particular language is a subset of those which contrast in onsets. The inverse of this pattern has been claimed to never occur (Goldsmith 1990, Beckman 1998). However, this prediction is falsi®ed by Chamicuro, a Peruvian language in which }h} and },} are systematically restricted to coda position. Since no permutation of all known constraints can account for this unusual distribution, a new constraint is necessary. I propose that we invoke HavePlace and subcategorise it for onsets. This positional markedness ®lter permits placeless (laryngeal) consonants to surface in codas, but blocks them in onsets. A bene®cial side-effect of this analysis is that it preserves the onset}coda asymmetry while allowing },} and }h} to be the only principled exceptions to it.

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