Metaphony as Magnetism
Marc Van Oostendorp, Roberta D’Alessandro
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003752
November 2017
Metaphony in Romance poses a well-known problem for Element Theory, as it seems to involve lowering. D’Alessandro and van Oostendorp (2016) propose to solve this by assuming some suffixes are ‘|A| Eaters’, absorbing the |A| element from the stem vowel without getting phonetically realized themselves. This paper points to some problems with this analysis, and shows that Magnetic Grammar, a framework in all linguistic variation is encoded in features, might help to solve them. This is the first draft of a paper we submitted for a volume. Comments/feedback very welcome!
| Format: | [ pdf ] |
| Reference: | lingbuzz/003752 (please use that when you cite this article) |
| Published in: | submitted |
| keywords: | element theory, phonology, primitives, magnetic grammar, morphology, phonology |