Antipalatalization as a systemic effect
Junko Ito and Armin Mester, Department of
Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
5/15/03, 5:30pm, bldg. 460-301 (3rd floor linguistics dept.
building---note nonstandard place!!)
This paper explores the development of sibilants and front glides before
front vowels in the historical phonology of Japanese. The guiding idea is
that wellformedness in this and many other similar cases can be understood
only with reference to the larger system of contrasts a form enters into.
In
OT, this is captured by constraints requiring that contrasts be
maintained,
and that they be perceptually distinct (as argued in work by Flemming and
Padgett, building on earlier ideas and proposals by de Saussure, Martinet,
Lindblom, and others).
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