Postlexical Noniterativity: NonFinality and Markedness Suppression
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So far this dissertation has focused on word-level noniterativity. This chapter examines noniterative postlexical phenomena, processes that extend beyond the word. Constraints such as NonFinality make demands of word edges, and it would not be surprising to find that neighboring words are called on to help satisfy these demands through (noniterative) spreading across the word boundary. For example, it has been suggested that harmonic domains are headed (Cassimjee & Kisseberth 1998, McCarthy 2004, Smolensky 1993, 1995, 2006). In a language with right-headed domains, NonFinality can discourage word-final domain heads. Harmony will be disrupted minimally so that the rightmost syllable in the word’s harmonic domain is the penultimate syllable rather than the final syllable, which joins the harmonic domain of the following word. Such a configuration avoids harmonic domains that end on word-final syllables. To put it differently, NonFinality can motivate spreading leftward across word boundaries by just one syllable so that the word-final syllable is not the rightmost
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