Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

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.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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