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Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization
Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2008)
  • Michal Temkin Martinez, University of Southern California
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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Also available online through Cascadilla Press: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/27/abstract1857.html
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/