LINB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Continuant
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Lec 7: week 8: phonological alternations & multiple rules (readings: chapter 4, Specifically, we examine the possibility of rules applying simultaneously or in a linear order. In many cases, the ordering of the rule does not matter. For example, we posited two vowel deletion rules to account for tonkawa vowel . Rule 1: v -> / _v rule 2: v -> / #cvc_ For the tonkawa case, it does not matter which rule applies first. Regardless of the ordering of the two rules, the same output results and these two rules do not interact. Notice that the contexts in which [s] and [z] occur do not form natural classes. If we were to pick /z/ as ur, the rule that derives /z/ to [s] will be complex. If we were to pick /s/ as ur, the rule that derives /s/ to [z] will be complex.
