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Compensatory Lengthening via Mora Preservation in OT-CC: Theory and Predictions
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Shaw, Jason (2008). Compensatory Lengthening via Mora Preservation in OT-CC: Theory and Predictions. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, NELS 38 Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3QF8QTK

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TitleCompensatory Lengthening via Mora Preservation in OT-CC: Theory and Predictions
PublisherGLSA, University of Massachusetts
NameShaw, Jason (Author)
Date Created2008
SubjectPhonology, Compensatory lengthening, Mora faithfulness, Candidate chains, Shared moras, OT-CC, Grammar, Comparative and general--Compensatory lengthening
Extent14 p.
DescriptionUnlike 'classic' OT (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004), Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) (McCarthy 2007) allows an account of compensatory lengthening via mora preservation, as in Hayes (1989). The OT-CC constraint ranking that permits compenstory lengthening makes a novel prediction about the rime structure of languages that exhibit these alternations. The OT-CC analysis presented here predicts both that VC rimes will be bi-moraic, as in Hayes (1989), and that the second mora of these rimes will be shared between the syllable nucelus and the syllable coda, a novel prediction of OT-CC. If shared moras distribute phonetic duration across segments (as argued by Broselow et. al. 1997), this prediction links the formal analysis of compensatory lengthening in OT-CC to the typologically rare phenomenon of closed syllable lengthening.
NoteThe definitive version of this paper is published in NELS 38: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (2008) and is available at https://www.createspace.com/3390689
GenreConference Paper or Lecture, Accepted Manuscript (AM)
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3QF8QTK
LanguageEnglish
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
   Type: Citation
   Date: 2008
   Name: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society
   Reference: https://www.createspace.com/3390689
CollectionRutgers Optimality Archive
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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