LING 3007 Lecture 20: LING 3007 Lecture 20 Nov 29

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3007
• Professor: Daniel Siddiqi

Document Summary

[+stress, -long, -cons, +syll] -> [shwa]/ [+cons]_[+cons][+stress, +syll] [+stress, -long, -cons, +syll] -> [null]/ [+consm +son]_[+cons, -son][+stress, +syll] 17-20: shortening of vowels (long v becomes short when lose stress, or deletion one of two members of long) [+stress, +long, +syll] -> [-long]/ [+cons]_[+cons][+stress] (cid:894)output of this rule i(cid:374) i(cid:374)put of pre(cid:448)ious, see output of this rule, so (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:271)efore other rule(cid:895) 21-26: v deleted and either i or u inserted if j now i if w now u: glide vocalization sv -> null / -son_ [+son, -cons, +stress] [+syll, -long, +stress] -> null/ [+cons, +son] _[-son] [+syll, -long, +stress] -> null/ _[+cons][+stress] null ->[shwa]/ [-sons]_[+cons] Ordering: deletion then shortening, shwa insertion, sonorant syllabification: rule conspiracy: when a bunch of unrelated rules all work together to achieve a desired effect, weakness of rule theory for phonology, have generalization which is easy explanation of data. Syllables: segments as linear effect in rules: segmental phonology, prosodic phonology: hierarchical relationships in sounds.