LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Markedness, Obstruent
28 Mar 2018
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Quiz on thursday - covers everything from the last quiz. Set b: avoids voiceless obstruents after nasals. Set b: nasal is deleted before a voiceless obstruent. Example 2: complete assimilation (all features assimilate) Nasal completely assimilates to a voiceless obstruent. Second example: metathesis - two segments switch places (phonological process) Phonological reason: avoids a nasal in front of a voiceless fricative. Can also think of it as infixation (morphological process) In other data: nasal deletes before a voiceless obstruent. All the above languages avoid a nasal + voiceless obstruent sequence. Similar rules for lots of different languages. Many languages fundamentally (cid:1154)doing the same thing(cid:1155) Before ot, languages do much of the same thing and no way to connect all those rules. Similar rules occur in multiple languages and different rules all fix the same structures: no way to formalize this, need both rules and constraints, example: ocp (obligatory contour principle for tone): ur cannot have two adjacent identical tones.
