Re: Tallefkeul: tones and whatnot
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 29, 2002, 19:19 |
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> > Eh? I thought that the Obligatory Contour Principle was the principle that
> > forbade identical adjacent tones at the tone tier in underlying
> > representations. What you're talking about is something else that I can't
> > remember either right now--Optimal Sonority Curve, or something like that.
> > Perhaps I'm misremembering, though.
>
> No, that may have been what it started out as, but it's much
> more widely used today.
One of the major applications of the OCP was to explain why semitic
trilateral roots never have adjacent identical consonants. (Or at least
Arabic, I won't swear to the rest of the family.) That is, you could find
a root like, say, KTK but never *KKT.
Marcus
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