LIN229H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Voseo, Final-Obstruent Devoicing, Sonorant
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Rule for to" we assume that /g/ is the morpheme for to" because it appears befor. February 27, 2017: rule: k g/ _[+voice, -son] Alpha notation: alpha stands for all values are either plus" or minus". , for primitive features, [ poa] or [ labial] is acceptable, a single rule may also contain more than one alpha-vairable (beta, gamma. Many rules do not interact: word-initial vowel deletion and final devoicing. Some rules can interact: word-final vowel deletion, then final devoicing. / s ne we g/ [s ne we g] [s ne we k: final devoicing (there is no final consonant), then word-final vowel deletion. We get 2 different surface forms if we reverse the order of the rules. Analysis process: observe data (alternations, distributions, figure out morpheme boundaries, make a rule(s), figure out ordering between rules, find underlying representations. Underlying representations for all of a. /b. can be made because there are no complications with the rules presented.
