Stress, Epenthesis, and Segment Transformation in Selayarese Loans

Faithfulness to Prosodic Heads*

ing away from the role of PARSE-SYLL in the results derived immediately above, the ranking arguments giving the partial metrical transparency result in Selayarese are summarized as follows. (59) Summary of Ranking Arguments •ALIGN-R (PrWd, {F}) » HEAD-DEP: Epenthesis does not yield preantepenultimate stress: sahalákku, not sá:halakku •HEAD-DEP » ALIGN-R (F, PrWd): Epenthesis into final syllable...

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

Coronal epenthesis and markedness

Morphological Alignment and Head Projection Toward a Nonderivational Account of Epenthesis and Exceptional Stress in Dakota

Recent work in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993, to appear) has suggested that phonological regularities can be explained without reference to phonological rules, strictly in terms of constraints on representational wellformedness. A unique aspect of Optimality Theory (OT) is that candidates are evaluated in parallel: there is no serial derivation. Given th...

Stop Epenthesis at Syll

This paper investigates the production and perception of epenthetic stops at syllable boundaries in Dutch and compares the experimental data with lexical statistics for Dutch and English. This extends past work on epenthesis in coda position [1]. The current work is particularly informative regarding the question of phonotactic constraints’ influence on parsing of speech variability.