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Harmonic Serialism And Parallelism, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The most familiar architecture for Optimality Theory is a fully parallel one, meaning that "all possible ultimate outputs are contemplated at once" (Prince and Smolensky 1993: 79). But Prince and Smolensky also briefly entertain a serial architecture for OT, called Harmonic Serialism. The idea is that Gen Eval iterates, sending the output of Eval back into Gen as a new input. This loop continues until the derivation converges (i.e., until Eval returns the same form as the input to Gen). There are clear resemblances between this approach and theories based on notions like derivational economy (e.g., Chomsky 1995). There is …

Faithfulness And Prosodic Circumscription, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

Morphological processes are often sensitive to the prosodic structure of their inputs. Phenomena like these have been analyzed under the rubric of operational Prosodic Circumscription by McCarthy & Prince 1990.

This article re-examines certain of the principal cases supporting positive prosodic circumscription, arguing that they can be better explained as effects of prosodic faithfulness within Optimality Theory using Correspondence. Two main types of circumscription-as-faithfulness are discussed: (i) Circumscriptional effects emerging from faithfulness to the edges or heads of prosodic constituents (Yidiny, Rotuman, Cupeño, Berber). (ii) Circumscriptional effects emerging from faithfulness to moras and mora-segment associations (Arabic broken plural).

Circumscription-as-faithfulness complements …

The Prosody Of Phrase In Rotuman, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The "phase" alternation in Rotuman is remarkable (and has attracted a good deal of previous attention) for two reasons. First, the shape differences between phases are quite diverse, involving resyllabification, deletion, umlaut, and metathesis. Second, the phase alternation produces prosodic structures that are otherwise unattested in this language, replacing simple (C)V syllables with closed and diphthongal ones. In this article, I argue that Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) helps to make sense of both these observations. I also go on to use these results to support some claims about the nature of templates and prosodic circumscription in the theory …

"Coordinate Compounds And Khmer Phrase Structure.", John Haiman, N. Ourn

John Haiman

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Reduplication In Southern Paiute And Correspondence Theory, Naomi Gurevich

Naomi Gurevich

In Southern Paiute, word initial w is realized as a labialized velar nasal intervocalically if it finds itself in such an environment upon morphological concatenation. McCarthy and Prince (1995) argue that a serial analysis of this alternation vis-à-vis reduplication leads to an ordering paradox, but an Optimality Theoretic analysis of the interaction between reduplication and the morphophonemic alternation in the language is able to account for the data. This analysis of Southern Paiute data, along with a handful of other examples in their work, is put forth by McCarthy and Prince as strong evidence in support of Correspondence Theory. I …

Formal Issues In Austronesian Linguistics, Ileana Paul, Vivianne Phillips, Lisa Travis

Ileana Paul

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"Iconicity", John Haiman

John Haiman

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L2 Acquisition Of Spanish Dps: The Status Of Grammatical Features., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, L. White

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Introduction, Ileana Paul, Vivianne Phillips, Lisa Travis

Ileana Paul

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Malagasy Existentials: A Syntactic Account Of Specificity, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Malagasy Clause Structure, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This thesis explores the nature of voice in Malagasy, a language spoken in Madagascar. In chapter 2, it is claimed that different passives promote arguments from different structural positions. Evidence is provided for a particular position, [Spec, v2P], where a certain class of elements (“displaced themes”) may be generated. One particular passive, the aprefix, promotes to subject elements in this position. In chapter 3, arguments are presented in favour of a structural analysis of circumstantial topic (CT). CT morphology licenses all arguments of the verb. Due to a requirement that all clauses have a subject (the Extended Projection Principle), some …

Concealed Pseudo-Clefts, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Instrumental Advancement Without Instruments And Without Advancement, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Clefts Vs. Pseudo-Clefts In Austronesian, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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The Individual Voice In Language, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Representing American Speech, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Collaborative Activity Between Parietal And Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex In Dynamic Spatial Working Memory Revealed By Fmri, Vaibhav A. Diwadkar, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

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The Neural Basis Of Strategy And Skill In Sentence-Picture Verification, Erik D. Reichle, Patricia A. A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

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Working Memory And Executive Function: Evidence From Neuroimaging, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just, Erik D. Reichle

Marcel Adam Just

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Shuttling Among Futures In The Symbolic Alchemy Of The Mysterium Coniunctionis, Kirk W. Junker

Kirk W Junker

Expectation, Kirk W. Junker

Kirk W Junker

Holisme Et Homophonie, Madeleine Arseneault, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

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The Meaning Of 'Sentences', Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

A familiar argument for sentence primacy is shown to rest on a false empirical claim.

Objects And Senses And Substitutions, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

No abstract provided.