Journal article
Mid vowel fronting in Ukrainian
Phonology, Vol.22(1), pp.1-36
05/2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0952675705000424
Abstract
This article investigates the process of o-fronting in Ukrainian and claims that it should be analysed as an effect of PAL-e, a constraint mandating that the consonant and the vowel agree in backness. The operation of PAL-e is opaque, due to the interaction with a depalatalisation process applying before [ε]. The analysis establishes four points of theoretical interest. First, from a typological perspective, PAL-e parallels PAL-i, postulated by Rubach (2000a) for Russian, which strengthens the contention that PAL constraints should be stated as agreement constraints that bring under the same denominator the palatalisation of consonants and the fronting of vowels. Second, the opacity of o-fronting cannot be analysed by appealing to MAX[F] constraints. Third, sympathy theory cannot handle the data either. Fourth, Optimality Theory must be modified to admit derivational levels.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mid vowel fronting in Ukrainian
- Creators
- Jerzy Rubach - University of Iowa and University of Warsaw
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Phonology, Vol.22(1), pp.1-36
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0952675705000424
- ISSN
- 0952-6757
- eISSN
- 1469-8188
- Number of pages
- 36
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2005
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984222811602771
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