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Opaque distributional generalisations in Tundra Nenets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2020

Peter Staroverov
Peter Staroverov*
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Abstract

Based on primary data from Tundra Nenets, this paper explores phonological patterns which seem to require restrictions on the input, and thus present a particular challenge to Optimality Theory. In these patterns, a contrastive segment appears only in the environments where it is also derived by active alternations in the language. I illustrate this with the behaviour of Tundra Nenets /k/, and argue that these patterns can be analysed as distributional generalisations that hold only at early derivational levels. A Stratal OT analysis is proposed. Tundra Nenets also presents a pattern which appears to involve unnatural classes, but is reanalysed with only natural class alternations in my account.

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Phonology , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , May 2020 , pp. 297 - 328
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Footnotes

For their comments on previous versions of this work, I am very grateful to the editors and the associate editor of Phonology, to three anonymous reviewers, to Darya Kavitskaya, Eva Zimmermann, Jochen Trommer and Julian Kirkeby Lysvik, as well as to audiences at Leipzig University, Rutgers University and the 22nd Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, especially Adam Jardine, Jennifer Cole and Eric Raimy. All errors are my own.

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