LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Syllabification, Sonorant, Canadian Raising
6 Mar 2017
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The fact that the syllabification procedure collects onsets before codas has an effect on where consonants that could be either onsets or codas will end up. If only one of the sounds is sonorant, it has to go first. If the first sound of a coda is voiceless, then the second can"t be voiced. Our rule of voicing assimilation appears to be part of a larger generalization about constraints on codas. When we add the plural or past tense ending, we create a coda that breaks our constraint. Rules can be seen as a repair of a broken representation. Constraints on codas restrict what can be a possible coda. Our voicing assimilation rule is part of a larger generalization about voicing restrictions in codas. A set of rules (grammar) that accurately describes the language of a native speaker. A grammar has fewer rules/more general rules is simpler than a grammar with a greater number of rules.
