Edge Asymmetries in Phonology and Morphology
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(1) (a) Positional Preservation: Underlying phonological material can resist neutralization at the left edge of a constituent, but not at the right edge. (Trubetzkoy 1939:228ff, Casali 1997, Beckman 1998) (b) Iambic Footing Asymmetry: Iambic feet are almost always parsed from left to right − not rightto-left. e.g. [(σσ")(σσ")σ], *[σ(σσ")(σσ")]. (Hayes 1985, 1995) (c) Prefix-Suffix Asymmetry: Attachment of morphemes to the left edge of roots − i.e. prefixation − is marked: while every non-isolating language has suffixes, not every language has prefixes. (Greenberg 1957, Hawkins & Gilligan 1988)
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