Conflicting directionality in Thompson River Salish
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This paper presents an analysis of the basic primary stress system in Thompson River Salish (TRS), an Interior Salishan language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. The lexical accent system in TRS exhibits a pattern of conflicting directionality: In words with no accented morphemes, stress falls close to the left edge of the prosodic word (PrWd); in words with accented morphemes, stress falls on the rightmost accented morpheme. I show that the TRS stress system can be analyzed in a manner that parallels the OT treatment of conflicting directionality in Zoll 1997. In my account, conflicting directionality in TRS results from an operation of two constraints, each of which targets opposite edges of the word. In this, my analysis resembles Zoll’s 1997 analysis, where she provides a similar account of conflicting directionality in a variety of languages. However, I show that the TRS pattern differs from the patterns in Zoll’s analysis: Zoll argued that the two constraints (that apply in each of the patterns studied in her article) involve a contrast between marked and unmarked structure. In contrast, the TRS pattern does not involve marked versus unmarked structure; instead, both of the constraints responsible for conflicting directionality in TRS are alignment constraints – one belongs to the family of Align constraints, while the other belongs to the family of Anchor-Pos constraints and combines stress alignment with faithfulness to the input. Thus, contrary to Zoll’s claim, conflicting directionality does not necessarily involve a distinction between marked and unmarked structure.
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