Phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory
Bonet, Eulàlia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Lloret, Maria-Rosa (Universitat de Barcelona)

Imprint:	De Gruyter, 2016
Abstract:	One major research question in Optimality Theory (OT) that directly tackles phenomena at the interface of phonology and morphology is whether or not the model should allow intermediate levels of representation. This chapter addresses this discussion by presenting phenomena from Romance languages that challenge the parallel version of OT in order to contrast the additional mechanisms proposed to maintain parallelism (especially, several kinds of output-to-output constraints and alignment constraints) with the analyses provided within different serial (stratal, derivational or cyclic) versions of OT. A further issue discussed in the light of parallel and serial versions of OT is the mechanism for phonologically conditioned allomorph selection. The data include, among other things, French adjectival liaison, definite article allomorphy in Galician and Italian, Spanish diphthongization, vowel reduction and epenthesis in Catalan, and palatalization in Romanian.
Grants:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-1013 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-918 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2013-46987-C3-1-P
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Language:	Anglès
Series:	Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; 10
Document:	Capítol de llibre
Subject:	Allomorphy ; Optimality Theory ; Paradigms ; Parallelism ; Serialism
Published in:	Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance, 2016, p. 105-147

DOI: 10.1515/9783110311860-007

9783110311860 44 p, 1.3 MB

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