I wrote:
>> How about this: Inflected words in Amman Iar are initially
>> syllabified in accordance with NoCoda and other constraints
>> which enforce an unmarked syllable structure. Stress
>> assignment and gemination then operate on the basis of
>> that representation. Finally, a "syllable-boundary
>> readjustment" rule (SBRR) is applied, which reassigns
>> certain onset consonants to coda position, in accordance
>> with a constraint which enforces congruence between
>> morpheme and syllable boundaries.
[snip]
>> Something like this might work, yes?
And Dirk replied:
>I think so. Of course, in keeping with current fashion in
>phonology, I would prefer to handle this all by constraints on
>surface strings rather than derivationally, but in this case I
>think the end result would be notational variants of the same
>analysis.
Well, that's the question, isn't it? Amman Iar (re)syllabification
and (re)assignment of stress seem to present us with a classic
case of cyclic application of phonological rules. How would such
effects be handled in a monostratal theory like Optimality
Theory?
Matt.