| ROA: | 1261 |
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| Title: | Servigliano revisited: An examination from constraint-based serialism |
| Authors: | Francesc Torres-Tamarit |
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| Length: | 21pp |
| Abstract: | This paper examines a metaphonic chain shift in Servigliano (Italo-Romance), in which open-mid vowels raise to high-mid and high-mid vowels raise to high when stressed and followed by inflectional /i, u/. The paper also explores pre-tonic metaphony, whereby low-mid vowels raise all the way up to high when followed by a stressed high vowel. First, an analysis of the data is developed using Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC), taking as a starting point the parallel OT analysis developed in Mascaró (2011). Second, it is shown that OT-CC causes one analytical problem and no gain in terms of economy. On the one hand, the metaphony-triggering constraint Agree(+high,+ATR) proposed in Mascaró (2011) needs to be split into two different constraints, one of which needs a more complicated formulation that requires a conditional clause. On the other hand, positional faithfulness is needed, as in the parallel OT analysis by Mascaró (2011), to explain the asymmetry between one-step metaphony and fell-swoop pre-tonic metaphony; OT-CC provides no inherent advantage in explaining this asymmetry. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Servigliano; Metaphony; Opacity; Chain shift; Optimality Theory with Candidate-Chains; Harmonic Serialism; Constraint conjunction |
| Article: | Version 1 |