Templatic Imposition in Language Games  

Oleh:

Abu-Abbas, Khaled H.

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 6 no. 2 (Feb. 2009), page 2-17.
Topik: language games; imposition; template; Arabic
Fulltext: Khaled H. Abu-Abbas.pdf (216.38KB)

Isi artikel

Botne and Davis (2000:320) make a novel distinction between insertion-type and impositiontype language games arguing against insertion of a template, McCarthy (1982), which they analyze as an imposition of a prespecified consonant on a vocalic peak rendering autosegmental spreading unnecessary. This paper comes in support of the notion of imposition-type games departing from Botne and Davis's analysis in arguing for the necessity of the template and autosegmental spreading: in a language game in Arabic, a template made up of a pre-specified consonant followed by two unspecified moras is imposed on the first mora of each syllable. The unspecified moras of the template are filled either by an existing nucleus or by a process of consonant spreading creating a geminate consonant in the syllable. Accordingly, Botne and Davis’s analysis of segment imposition is reanalyzed as an imposition of a mono-moraic template.

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