Weight typology: An Optimality Theoretic approach

Autor:	Bruce Morén
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Typology Linguistics and Language Factorial Ranking Sonority hierarchy Metric (mathematics) Optimality theory Language and Linguistics Linguistics Small set Mathematics
Zdroj:	The Linguistic Review. 20
ISSN:	1613-3676 0167-6318
Popis:	This paper reviews the descriptive generalizations regarding segment weight, and provides an Optimality Theory (OT) analysis that both confirms and challenges traditional typological expectations. Ultimately, the predictions of factorial ranking provide a means by which to examine the adequacy of individual OT analyses and a metric by which to re-examine our assumptions about linguistic patterns and the nature of phonological typology. Descriptively, weight is shown to come in two flavors, coerced and distinctive. Each is relevant to both consonants and vowels, and each has its own generalizations - an implicational relationship between coerced weight and segment sonority, but no such relationship between distinctive weight and sonority. Theoretically, the factorial ranking of a small set of constraints not only explains the descriptive generalizations, but also results in some unexpected predictions that are, in fact, empirically supported.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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