Balantak metathesis and theories of possible repair in Optimality Theory
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Given that oral consonants often block total vowel assimilation (Aoki 1968, Steriade 1987), this case of metathesis can be analyzed as serving to allow assimilation to apply unimpeded (cf. Broselow 2001). In terms of Optimality Theory, both the constraint driving assimilation and the constraint blocking assimilation across an oral consonant are satisfied, at the cost of violating faithfulness constraints against segmental metathesis and deletion. With the relevant assimilation constraint (expositorily ASSIM) and the constraint against trans-oral assimilation (BLOCK) ranked above the anti-metathesis and antideletion constraints (SEGFAITH), this pattern is produced. Failed candidate (3b) is an instance of trans-oral assimilation, and candidate (3c) is an instance of non-assimilation, with a default vowel surfacing (here schwa) instead of an assimilated one.
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