Article
Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization
Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
(2008)
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of allophony, exceptionality, and variation in Modern Hebrew spirantization within a single grammar. The proposed account handles both regularly spirantizing and exceptional segments by extending the set-based approach of Pater (2000) to the segmental level. In this approach, exceptional segments (which do not vary) are members of a set which is indexed to a faithfulness constraint that dominates the markedness constraints driving spirantization. Variation in regularly alternating segments--which was found in an acceptability rating task--is accounted for through stochastic ranking of the relevant markedness constraints.
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Publication Date
2008
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Citation Information
Michal Temkin Martinez. "Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization" Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2008) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michal_martinez/1/