LING 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tongue, Obstruent, Continuant
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Richness of the base (rotb) has something interesting to say about the spanish and. English phonetic and phonemic inventories we looked at last class. This stance makes maximal use of theoretical resources already required, avoiding the loss of generalization entailed by adding further language- particular apparatus devoted to input selection. (cid:523))n this we deal with. Kisseberth(cid:495)s (cid:494)duplication problem(cid:495) by having no duplication. (cid:524) constraints seem to be doing the same thing and thus duplicating each other(cid:495)s. The term duplication problem refers to cases where rules and morpheme structure effects. At least two syllables or one heavy syllable. For example, there are no content words like the following. More generally content words of the type cv and cvc are absent. Estonian also has a process which deletes final vowels in the nominative singular. (there is also lengthening, but it is irrelevant here. The deletion process does not apply in certain cases.
