A problem for *Map faithfulness constraints
Benjamin Storme
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003834
January 2018
This squib shows that *Map faithfulness constraints, which have been used to model saltations (Hayes & White 2015), make problematic predictions. They predict that input-output changes may happen without any markedness constraints motivating them: this derives unattested phonological patterns such as intervocalic devoicing. By contrast, an approach based on Segment Faithfulness (Burzio 2000) is more restrictive and therefore preferrable: it predicts that input-output changes must always be motivated by markedness constraints.