Article
Exceptions Encoded at the Segmental Level
Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
(2008)
Abstract
This paper discusses the need for including treatment of exceptions as segmental-level phenomena in the theory as evidenced from exceptional cases to spirantization in Modern Hebrew. A prespecification approach is used to provide an Optimality Theoretic account for words containing both regularly spirantizing and exceptional segments. Previous word-level analyses fail to account for such forms by dealing with exceptions as whole-word phenomena, allowing only words in which segments are either exceptions or regularly alternating.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
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Also available online through the Cascadilla Proceedings Project: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/26/abstract1703.html
Citation Information
Michal Temkin Martinez. "Exceptions Encoded at the Segmental Level" Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2008) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michal_martinez/6/