Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction

by Rosenthall,Samuel

• ISBN13: 9780815328841
• ISBN10: 0815328842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Contents	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
I. INTRODUCTION	3	(36)
1.1 Overview	3	(1)
1.2 The Vowel/Glide Alternation	4	(8)
1.3 Optimality Theory	12	(6)
1.4 Syllable Structure Constraints	18	(11)
1.5 Underlying Representations	29	(8)
Notes	37
II. SURFACE PATTERNS OF UNDERLYING VOWEL SEQUENCES	39	(88)
2.1 Introduction	39	(2)
2.2 Etsako	41	(18)
2.2.1 The Distribution of Nonmoraic Vowels	42	(8)
2.2.2 Vowel Elision	50	(9)
2.3 Yoruba	59	(5)
2.3.1 /i/ and Elision	61	(3)
2.4 Luganda	64	(32)
2.4.1 Luganda Syllable Structure	65	(2)
2.4.2 Vowel Elision	67	(7)
2.4.3 High Vowels and Vowel Length	74	(2)
2.4.4 High Vowels and Short Vowels	76	(6)
2.4.5 Vowel Length and Prenasalization	82	(8)
2.4.6 Previous Analyses of Luganda	90	(6)
2.5 Kimatuumbi	96	(11)
2.5.1 Sequences with a Nonhigh Vowel	97	(2)
2.5.2 The Distribution of Nonmoraic Vowels	99	(4)
2.5.3 Glides as Onsets	103	(4)
2.6 Ilokano	107	(13)
2.6.1 Ilokano Syllable Structure	108	(1)
2.6.2 Vowel Sequences in Ilokano	108	(4)
2.6.3 Nonmoraic Vowels and Geminates	112	(8)
2.7 Conclusion	120	(5)
Notes	125	(2)
III. METRICAL INFLUENCES ON SYLLABIFICATION	127	(80)
3.1 Introduction	127	(2)
3.2 Lenakel	129	(27)
3.2.1 Lenakel Syllable Structure	130	(6)
3.2.2 Lenakel Stress	136	(1)
3.2.3 Metrification and Syllabification	137	(6)
3.2.4 Postvocalic High Vowels	143	(8)
3.2.5 Underlying Glides	151	(3)
3.2.6 Previous Work On Lenakel	154	(2)
3.3 Spanish	156	(41)
3.3.1 Spanish Syllable Structure	158	(10)
3.3.2 Spanish Metrical Structure	168	(7)
3.3.3 Stress and Syllabification	175	(22)
3.3.3.1 The Penultimate Position	176	(11)
3.3.3.2 The Final Position	187	(5)
3.3.3.3 The Antepenultimate Position	192	(5)
3.4 Intervocalic Glides	197	(2)
3.5 Evidence for Phonemic Glides	199	(4)
3.6 Conclusion	203	(2)
Notes	205	(2)
IV. OTHER SOURCES OF GLIDES	207	(70)
4.1 Introduction	207	(1)
4.2 Homorganic Glides and Epenthetic Consonants	208	(28)
4.2.1 Other Examples of Homorganic Glide Distribution	221	(15)
4.3 Consonantel Glides	236	(10)
4.3.1 Ilokano Diphthongs	237	(5)
4.3.2 Ponapean Reduplication	242	(4)
4.4 Glide Vocalization	246	(28)
4.4.1 High Vocoid Distribution in Ait Seghrouchen Berber	248	(8)
4.4.2 Vocolized Glides and Epenthesis in Kabyle and Ath-Sidhar Rifian	256	(14)
4.4.3 Vocalized Glides and Vocalized Consonants in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt	270	(4)
4.5 Conclusion	274	(1)
4.6 Concluding Remarks	274	(2)
Notes	276	(1)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	277	(8)
INDEX	285