Journal article
Prevocalic faithfulness
Phonology (Full Text), Vol.25, pp.433-468
12/2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0952675708001589
Abstract
Looking at data from Polish and Ukrainian, this paper addresses the problem of positional faithfulness, in particular onset faithfulness. It is argued that onset faithfulness in its current understanding makes wrong predictions, because it extends the status of privilege to any consonant in the onset. The correct theory is more restrictive and treats as special only the segments that stand before a vowel: prevocalic faithfulness. A further restriction is that the vowel must constitute a syllable nucleus. In effect, then, prevocalic faithfulness refers to onsets, but restricts them to the segment directly before the nucleus.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Prevocalic faithfulness
- Creators
- Jerzy Rubach
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Phonology (Full Text), Vol.25, pp.433-468
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0952675708001589
- ISSN
- 0952-6757
- eISSN
- 1469-8188
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2008
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984222813302771
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