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Generalized alignment

John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Alan Prince

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Abstract

Structural relations between grammatical categories (here, morphological and phonological) are governed by a single family of constraints under Optimality Theory: these demand that one type of grammatical constituent share a designated edge with some other type of constituent. Evidence is considered from footing patterns, infixability, epenthesis, syllabification, and prosodic subcategorization.

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John J. McCarthy and Alan Prince. "Generalized alignment" Yearbook of Morphology (1993): 79-153.
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