| ROA: | 392 |
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| Title: | Pattern-Responsive Lexicon Optimization |
| Authors: | K. David Harrison, Abigail Kaun |
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| Length: | 15 |
| Abstract: | Pattern-Responsive Lexicon Optimization K. David Harrison and Abigail Kaun Yale University The principles of Lexicon Optimization dictate that predictable feature values will be missing from input representations only when they exhibit surface alternations. Patterns of vowel harmony and disharmony in Finnish and Tuvan indicate that this is not the case. We argue that the theory of underspecification that falls out from Lexicon Optimization is too restrictive. We instead propose a theory of Pattern-Responsive Lexicon Optimization (PRLO) under which a pervasive phonological pattern may yield underspecified input representations, even in the absence of surface alternations. Such patterns may promote the selection of an underspecified input representation over a fully-specified one, even when mapping the appropriate surface form to the fully-specified alternative would involve fewer constraint violations. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |