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- Title
Assimilation, dissimilation, and surface correspondence in Sundanese.
- Authors
Bennett, William
- Abstract
Much recent work has approached long-distance agreement effects using the notion of correspondence between surface segments, driven by relative phonological similarity. This theory of correspondence also has consequences for dissimilatory interactions. Sundanese exhibits a complex [r]∼[l] alternation, which may arise by assimilation or dissimilation. This alternation is analyzed as the result of constraints on surface correspondence, which give rise to both assimilation and dissimilation in complementary distribution, with the choice between them determined by the structural configuration of the interacting liquids. Harmony occurs where surface correspondence between liquids is permitted; dissimilation occurs where such correspondence is prohibited. Dissimilation is argued to emerge from the interaction of constraints that require similar consonants to correspond, and constraints that limit this correspondence, rather than being an effect of anti-similarity constraints.
- Subjects
ASSIMILATION (Phonetics); DISSIMILATION (Phonetics); PHONETICS; CONSONANTS; LANGUAGE research
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p371
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-014-9268-2