Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

> From: dirk elzinga
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> I've thought about how this can be done, but unfortunately, I
> need to head out right now. I'd like to revisit this question,
> though, so I'll be back later to give it a try.
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David

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