Dissertation on Natural Phonology

A Dissertation on Natural Phonology

David Stampe

ED Garland

Publishing,

Inc. • New York & London 1979

CONTENTS

Preface

Library

of Congress

Stampe, David, A dissertation

Cataloging

1938on natural

in Publication

Data

The

v

Acquisition

o

A Dissertation

on

Phonetic ' c Representation Natural

Vii

Phonology

xxvi

phonology.

(Outstanding dissertations in linguistics ; 22) Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Chicago, 1973. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Grammar, Comparative and general-Phonology. 2. Psycholinguistics. 3. Language acquisition. I. Title. II. Series. P217.3.57 1979 414 78-66538 ISBN 0-8240-9674-6

Chapter

T:

The

Nature

and

Chapter

II:

The

Organization

Function of

References

Process

Processes

1 43 11

Afterthoughts Additional

of

75 References

84

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PREFACE The minor

present

edition

corrections

submitted

to

in December 1972

but

of my dissertation without

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University

1973.

The

version

distributed

pagination

changes,

Chicago

Department

of

latter

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title

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retyped,

from

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abridged

from

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a September

my Sunrmer

Vacation. The 1969

paper

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reprinted the

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here

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exhaustive.

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Chicago

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Society,

corrections

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from is

as a convenience

discussion

in

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to

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paper.

here changes For

o

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much of

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subsequent

of

againwith

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o

The Acquisition

was originally as

'Afterthoughts, in

details

Natural

Phonology,

"Additional

References"

the

' mostly

theory. the

a 1979 that

without

reader

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footnotes. to

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intended

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paper

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and me (see survey

work.

Columbus

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to The Study

a general

July

to

1979

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of

recent

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vii

THE ACQUISITION

Since o

natural

1965

phonology,

system

of

ience.

since

this

report

is

to

more

into

that

restrictions tically

fall

the

into

restrictions.

by

voicing,

talks

have

some

by

example

between

the

be

voiceless

contradictions The

contradictor

and are

most

of

not

on a theory

the an

ways

of

Phonological innate

by

been of

system

of

linguistic

exper-

published,

I have

those

speech

talks

rather

which

sets,

oral

other

reflecting

voiceless

than

voiced.

tries

become

these

are

characteris-

voiced

required

in

voiced

overlap,

an ways

their

airflow

processes

three

phonetic of

the

a contradiction: There

the

irrespective

they

Where

opposi-

conflicting

impedes

hand

is

least Processes

constriction

there

Phonological

capacity.

become

the

a potential

opposition

"assimilation." vowels

residue

highlights

merges

human

on

Society

work.

of

their

while

environments

.

certain

contradictory

because

both

in

Obstruents

context,

the

that

revised

process

of

REPBESENTATION*

assumption the

recent

member

to

largely

review

A Phonological tion

the

my Previous

year on

reporting

on

processes, But

chosen

been

based

a language

phonological

to

I have

OF PHONETIC

for

abstruent bY which

cannot such

resolved.

radical

rocesses.

resolution

is

The master

by

suppression

of

one

of voiced

obstruents

of

the

in all

Papers from the Fifth Regiona7 Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, ed. Robert I inni. B ck Alice Davisan Georgia Green and Jerry L. Morgan. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Linguistics, istics, 1969. Pp. 443-454. (Reprinted with permission of the Chicago Linguistic Society.)

.

f

viii contexts

entails

above,

with

contexts The

the

a

resulting

except

those

second

resolution

Process---limiting contexts and is

applies

strict

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tense may

vowels,

example.

clearly

are

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role.

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nairfi

of

between

low

voicing

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traditional

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or

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high

parameter

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be

imposed,

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latex

processes,

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to

nasalized

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Greek

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ment-s

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innate

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all:

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ordered

application. this

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obstruents

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effect

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plified,

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merges

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it

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xi

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characteristically

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may

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and

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suppress

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acquisition

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system. same

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e equivalent In those has

the

view of

the

survive

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language

in which tophonetic h'sp

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in

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whereby that

Jakobson

word-final

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pronounced

mechanisms

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devoicin

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seem

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final

by the

pronunciation,

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characteristically

have

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mastered.

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can be

fully

properties

of

the

innate

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there

is

no need

1940

proposed,

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result

entirely

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to

for

example,

the

spirants

and

spirants

imply

to

to the the

imPlicational sto Ps

by

processes, three inner their hierarchies and

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devozced.

representations

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pronunciation

pronounceable

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appears

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phonetically

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.

i xiii

xii obstruent ited

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tion

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notion

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representation.

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strictly

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speech

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the

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the

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students

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laws

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to appeal

been

acquisition

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for

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of

themselves

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context-sensitive palatal andevenvelar stops, splrantizing

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allow

we would

of

processes affricatln g stops before high them after vowels for example. As might be expected, if these may arise

to

level.

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laws.

laws

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law

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dictions

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t there

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acquisition.

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become

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his

mastery

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only

conditional,

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the

process

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fact rations

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optional.

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in this

case

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between

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new and

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.

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guage have the

k

arise

at

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first,

result

apparent.

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process

word

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change

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in favor

at

the

whose presence

in question,

makes coronals earlier

first

appearance

of velars

Gag Herr

Goka,

presumably

evidence

against before

son had a process

pronounced

like

now ing, one are

cite

common

at

some

while

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having but

from

ordered clear

two examples

of

innate

processes a child

which

another

actually

do').

LeoPold

1947:

bat

dered

application

was

after

LeoPold

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has

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the

order-

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pplication

everythin

p

flapping

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of

n

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changing •

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flap-dele-

of 'candy'

became

g after

ons of both

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'candy'

ob-

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bap , with

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of the

word-final

'spoon').

a

dud u

.

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steps,

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of

f zcation

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a

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nd

was at nn

by ord

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ering

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(a).9

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months

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m into

20

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processes

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making

at

ore vowel

devozced

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and then denasalzzed

acquired

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bef

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and desyllabi

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assimilated

application

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applied

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At 22 months Joan Velten

these

first

'dog'

'June'

268 and 1939: 126

ward she had previously

the

b

literature

, Hildegand

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did

support

the

example

du

and

a non-nasal

Guken

in

r choo-chop'bY

in the

phonological

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find

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d ud u

'to

tion,

illustrating

processes.

,

struents

in-

unchan g e d

speech

[du(t)j'}

to

cases.

same processes.

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representation,

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which

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becomes

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then

so that

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difficult

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actually

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phonetic

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of

stops,

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and

Tag, Herr Doktor'.

da

became

tat

Duten Ta Herr Dotta

final

as

occurs

aware

'church'

kt

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are

said

that

was not pre-

a velar

them, such cases

acquisition

examples and

f irat,

says

of this

from NadolecznY,

mentally

deleting

'dog'

velars to

limitation, child

'doll'

of velars

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having

he can produce

claim.

to]

ordering

after

repression

culprit

pronounced

said

'Guten

child's

if

quoted

a child for

k

must be , explained

the

velar

and 'dog',

analysis:

of

the cases

process

to this

deleted

But all

'cat'

the

by a hypercorrect

in fact

In the case

lan-

in the use of both phonemes

can be

subject

to the

coronal,

(54).

of such a hYPercorrection,

acquisition

makes linguals

of [k]"

example

oppositions

emergence

caused

literature

which

the

those

of some additional

viously

discussing

, mistakes

especially

in the

in morphemes which in the adult

Jakobson,

appears

t

seen

only

of the process

finally

expected

place

former,

suppression

"when

the

the

take

xv

'paper between

The denasaliza

people, Papu tion

much easier

before voiced

process 25 months

are

Papa

voiced

segments

'guppy'

process

segments Pab a

LeoPold 1947:

Joan Velten purple'

t o find .

and and

first

Pabu

in herspeech

baba bef

31

'pa

pa')

ore she finally

B y exactly

distinguished

bu.bu

Hildegand

Paral-

between

'baby' , and then at 27

'probably' , mentioned

Velte above

n 290). was

t

i

xvli

xvi limited

to

nonf

inal

positions

before

being

suppressed:

sa:bud

PassY believed 'salmon'

becomes

sa•bun

and

finally

sa:mun

291

.

Chao's

tion, daughter,

learning

Mandarin

at

first

palatalized

all

coronals

this

to continuant

coronals

by children,

h -deletion

process,

successively

limited

stress

until

he

dropped

only

before

in

context-free

attained

my son's

the

in

speech

standard

completely

of the speech

explains

its

most

general

from "imperfect

imita-

of adults"

1890:

225.

This

why, except

in borrowing,

phonetic

change does not

to

formal

stressless

syllables

of

with

This

It

also

explains,

as the Neogrammarian

view

change

as due to subconscious

drifts

of pronunciation

does

decreasing

pronunciation

syllables.

in adults.

form

of phonetic was

change arises

Chao 1951: 29f))-0 seem to occur

'~ e

phonetic

and

hypothesis

hen limited

that

grand-

is

not,

how change

might be quite

that

children's

deformations

radical.

And finally,

to the extent

h

of adult

speech

are

regular,

it explains

a condi-

certain Phonetic change why is regular. If thec tional PPed limitation

even

in the

standard

at

least

in

my dialect

and

so

sound, it

may apply

to

increasingly

stressed

syllables

in

increasingly

it will

substituted speech

his

henhouse'is

example

illustrates,

Process

governs

henhouse

'is

hen'ouse>

'is

appear

'en'ouse

.

The

of

a

for

the

way the

inner

hierarchy

ing. not

only

its

form

a

violation

but

its

application; lication•

Phonetic

requiring

of

the

hierarchy

(e.g.

it

to the

sound he regularly

A Phonetic

^in readily change

be expressed

occurs

by the

when the child

theory

fails

I am propos-

to suppress

some

repre-

innate sentations

he has changed

it.-

This account incidentally,

that

Y relaxed FP a

enhouse~

process P

which

does not

aPP1Y in the

standard

language.

Thus if

do not

an American

child

obstruents,

for

fails

to suppress

the process

devoicing

word-final

occur.

As an example

of suppression,

I will

"u

cite

just

will exhibit w111 as pronounced

by a two-year

old boy in successive

his

speech-compared

to the adult

standard-

the word 'kitty'

interviews.

~ pronunciation changed fromki:

a phonetic example, change

corresponding

to the

"addition"

of a

His kii

to k i

to kL i

devoicin.g process to kLr i to

to the phonology.

This change

has in fact

occurred

gical many dialects in of EngT kLtib

suppression

of the processes

of prevocalic

tensrepresentations

ing, ingt

PostsY11ab1c Y successivedesYllabification

, flap-deletion,

and flapping

those boy's

parents

speak

a dialect

with unf1a PPed

t

It

a child

to manifest

all

the

intermediate

steps

0f later

between

his

pronunciations

of a form

My son's

the

pronunciation

of this

direct)

sate

that

Y from

ki:to

he suppressed

[kin].i all

This does not necessarily

the processes

at once

since

indi-

suppression

first

(flap-deletion)

would have resulted

generations

original

if

there

in the same abrupt

representations.

earlier vowels

respectively, of [b€: t].

the

nor would it affect

remained

any phonological

support

In the dialects

in question,

'bet'

bet

and

be•] d b

the

standard

process

making Y

word stressed

went

of course,

first and 'bed'

and last

originators,

is extraordinar extraordinary for

for

of its

the

change.

long are

still

or short

before

distinguished

voiced

or voiceless

by vowel length

segments, as

bet

and

,

I

xix

xviii adjustment these

before

can

be

seen

Velten

at

length

adjustment

first

tinguished ordering

devoicin$

and

before

most of the

gradually

admitted changes

often

have

admitted

more conservative must not

which

imagine

admit it

first

optional

sions

are

sa Y the

essentially

the

exemplified

devoicIng

standard

standard

has "generalized"

itself are

forces

speech. there

are

changes

many others

speech.

We

Even those that

in the isoglosses

at

the child's

progres-

of change-we

might

dialects

in the opposite dialects

it be ordered

order

in

which have

with respect

to

was relaxed in

to the form compatible

it will will

appear that he therefore

con-

change will proceed in from the child's

limita-

are optional

ones, as in the

They are sometimes even reflected dialect.

Ideally,

the

have admitted a process in its most general form, and isogloss

enforced,

at the outermost

rarely

of

assume the form of hierarchies

an innovating

each successive

marks an additional isogloss

The classic

limitation

we encounter

the process in any form.

encountered.

Of course

example involves

which has been dialects the ideal

the isoglosses

which is of the

"~~ Rhenish Fan ," on the boundary between High and Low German)13 -3 have dwelt on phonetic change at some length because the account of phonetic

to ordered

regularly

cited above.

surrounding

have not admitted

means thatY optional the oY are

process

in the process; rocess•

if the generalizations

until

anent-s

along these hierarchies

example of [h]-deletion

innermost

mens

Latin ordering

The generalization

implicit

of applicability

are characteris-

from unordered

appears

the process.

is

the dia-

as in

and to the extent he fails

These hierarchies

Beside

has the same length whether it repre-

a Phonological

tion of it.

innovator

unor-

n was absorbed here as well.l2

only

language.

in the child

absorption,

direction

the

in admitting

bund . The conservative

the opposite

by

than obligatory

only in relaxed

progression

required

with the standard

bunt

or

must limit

to the

rather

to t he tendencies

P phonetic change. have

exerts

On the contrary,

opposite

is why wh the typical

corresponding

admitted

speech.

regressions-of

This application

in child

after

The child

Thus it

before thethey fact become that phonetic obligatory

bunt

form to the hierarchies

standard

p

so that

popular Latin so that

by

at first.

devoicing,

that

tically

the

still

289),

Innovations

as optional

obligatory

the

German has gone a step further

underlying

assibilation

process.

•n hxs formal

which

processes,

she attains

conditionally

to suppress lects

to these

of the

sents

with

Thus her phonological

of children.

The conservatism

bat

adjustment.

dered application,

Joan

Velten

of the standard

begin

length

of

then at 24 months dis-

the devoicing

of ten just

as

respectively

regard

innovations

example,

alike

devoicing.

influence

application

For

and 'bad'

Three weeks later

rejecting

pronunciations.

children.

b a, t

by suppressing

phonetic

unordered

devoicing,

identical, 1, with

The conservative

that

of

after

as [bat]

above.

innate,

'back'

adjustment

cited

pronunciation

speech

applying

these

becomes

dialects

the

pronounced

length

system

in

The

acquisition

presented

here appears to explain

currently

known mechanisms of regular phonetic

addition

generalization,

child's

failure

of the innate

and unorderin

respectively,

of processes

to suppress,

system to the extent

change.

limit,

fully

all

the

The apparent arise

in the .

g

or order processes

required by the standard tanguage.

14

I1

f

i

~°

I

xx

xxi t

i

1 i

In

other

in

some

words, or

must

refer

ited

to

the

all

child

simply

contexts.

to

the

This

innate

understand

fails is

system

the

really

and

precise

to master all

the

nature

a phonetic

that

is

mechanisms

and

the

opposition

involved.

by which

regularity

But it

is

NOTES 1 The Greek

we

lim-

of phonetic F

change. The theory tions

outlined

acquisition And

i i. ~,

finally,

it

much

acquisition

can be

change can

observed

in

the

here and

Jakobson but

of

extended

for

the

Phonological

detail

than

change

of

representations

StamPa

regularities

systems

of

Jakobson's

for

the

theory,

the

as 4

languages

which

was

limited

Ei, ~;

i~ ,, ~~ ~~ i

)just

to

a subset

ness

theory

of

of

Phonological

ChomskY and Halle

approximately

the

theories

limited

were

context-free

same

1968:

set

of

processes.

just

to

the

processes.

chapter

9

most

The marked-

was limited

As a result underlying

both

levels

tion,

which

are

relatively,

though

not

entirely,

undisturbed

by

the

re-

,~

maining ,,i

the

processes.

theory

account ~~

such

outlined

for

all

theories

stantive,

in

Phonological gering standing

i

An important here

levels as

the

task of

must

can

present

is

that

succeed

instance It

confront

phonology.

then

of Phonological

these

system.

difference

becomes any

between the

latter

is

insofar

increasingly attempt

and to

Of course

as

by a description

theories

intended

representation. only

serious

those

they of

obvious

are

made sub-

the

innate

that

this

to advance

our

that

the

corre

ct forms would result if the processes applied sequentially and iterativel Y in random order. The notion "unordered" corresponds to the "unmarked ordering" of Kiparsky 1965 except that h I extend it, as noted, to include re-application. More on this below "Ordered" here corresponds t o KiParskY' s ~~marked ordering."

Post-babbling" utterances as defined here, are guished from the unstructured, random vocalizations of which significantly, is essentially alike in deaf and dren. Since the structure of post-babbling utterances for by the innate Phonological system, one might ufurther they are underlain by phonologic al representations, in haps as crude imitations of adult speech, prior to the its distinctions and semanticit y.

to be distintrue babbling, hearing chilcan be accounted speculate that some sense perrecognition of

representaI

'~

in

This crucial issue is discussed in Stampe (forthcoming), where it is contended that the problem of "phonological admissibility" is contained in and therefore inseparable from, the larger problem of loan phonology.

to

these of

unordered

1968).

such

world's

are

2However most of the processes mentioned in this paragraph make limited appearances, at least in some adult languages. For example, Vietnanese has lost Austroasiatic unstressed syllables, Oceanic has lost Austronesian consonant clusters etc. Such radical changes result from the collective effects of numerous specific processes.

representa-

way to account

imPlicational

can

phonetic

in a natural

of Phonological

account

in

finer

and

processes

stag-

under-

Conversely, it turns out that incorrect imPlicational laws like Jakobson's conjecture that spirants imply nasals Velten 1943: 282 fail to correspond to actual processes; in this instance, there is no general process changing non-nasal spirants to nasals. 6 The most notable exceptions to this generalization involve words which the parents have imitated When adults adopted my son' s Pibi for 'T.V.' by desPirantiz anon and labial "harmony"), this word persisted for months after he had suppressed these processes, even though he could pronounce tivi with ease Later after he adopted the standard form he still occasionally used Pibi i n bobYtalking. The most striking cases of "frozen speech" involve elder siblings, who occasionally adopt some stage of the speech of the younger, and continue it as a private language even after the younger sibli ng has attained standard pronunciation. Jakobson 1940 cites some references.) Such exceptions support, rather than refute the claim that the child's representations correspond to the productions of his models. In Yes Virginia... I argue that the child's representations must in fact be at least as deep as sentation" of adult speech, based on examples like

Phonological a "phonemic reprebAdn for adult

xxiii

xxii

bn?n cesses)

r

each of which from b nt n .

derives

by the application

of different

It is possible to avoid this result only by denying' of the two absorptions• but it was to express such KiParskY proposed the notion of change by reordering Place. For further examples of this sort, including plication, see StamPa (forthcoming).

pro-

With b for w for I (compare bibi for biwi for bL 'Bill' , reported to me by Ar lene Zide . The form bap persisted until the 27th month because it was adopted by the adults of the household Velten 282 note). Therefore the final [b] expected upon the ordering of denasali zation after devoicing at 22 months did not appear on schedule in this form. Compare note 6 above.

,.

ii

9The Further discussed

unordered

application

examples of in StamPa

survives

optional unordereng forthcoming.

, in

however, synchronic

in

allegro phonology

speech. are o 'a

10Since

I' i. i

allophonic

i

dude course

en

I i I

i I

~ I

~I

ii

II

i !~

i. i.

~

she

ordered

process

an

her

fronting

and

san

that her phonemic this conclusion

alatalization vowels

as

en

system has is necessary

process

after

the

Mandarin P

after pronouncing adult palatals, and [fun], Chao is forced to conmore vowels than the only if one insists

adult that

one. the

Of

13 It should be emphasized perhaps , that "generalization" as used in this discussion has little relation to its use in generative phonolo g ical theory, y, since t he latter is concerned not with innate processes but rather with rules which are "internalized" by the child to represent "significant generalizations" about his language . That the child supplements the innate h opological system with rules , particularly morphological and expressive ones is not at issue . But so little is known of such rules as yet that most recent speculations about constraints on them-such as the rotational and "markedness" conventions of Chomsky and Halle 1968: chapters 8 and 9-seem quite premature.

14 KiParskY 1968 also proposes change by suppressing processes of the standard language which he explains, along with generalization -:i phonological representations were a phonemic version of her own girl's j ~[ and reordering, as simplification of the grammar. He is thus unable pronunciations. t} s •:r to explain the addition of processes, whereas my proposal can explain addition generalization and ordering but not suppression. But t 11This view was applied by Jakobson 1940 to the phonemic level. t°. there are less than a half dozen clear cases o f change by suppression, The more recent proposal by Halle 1962 that change reflects the '# against innumerable cases of addition. r phonology, is not so limited, and re-addition of a process to the One of the clearest cases involves the suppression 0f the German flects our growing conviction that phonological processes are not mere ~` process devoicing word-final obstruents in certain Yiddish and descriptive devices but rather genuine i components of the mental gramnorthern Swiss dialects KiParskY 1968: ll1 That the process was 1F mar. But Halle's implication that adults might spontaneously add a ie suppressed seems certain but the cause appears not to have been general theory is difficult process to understand. Halle's is based "simplification" but rather a dile mmasoccasioned by the loss, in all :r all Phonologica 1 Processes are rules which are the on assumption that 'e these dialects of most word-final schwas. This introduced thousands constructed by the child to account for his linguistic experience, b cs of voiced obstruents into word-final position and, since the lost and that the phonological system is evaluated according d to the simschwas lacked clear morphological support, flatly contradicted the plicity of these rules so that (other thin things being g equal) the fewer devoicing process. Two resolutions were possible to children con, given this views why a rules thebetter. It,c is notat all clear fronting this situation. They could aPP1Y devoicing to the newly process should be added in the first place. s final obstruents and thus merge bunt and bund < banda : as [bunt]; or suppress it and keep [bunt] and bund distinct. Some dialects 12 On the basis of this Latin example it can be argued, contra ~~ took the former option and others, the ones KiParskY cites the latKiParskY (1968), that a process is not simply reordered but rather ter. What this suggests is that although suppression occurs under in this sort of change, because the absor process had unordered absorption certain circumstances it is not a primary mechanism of change. to PP1Y twice The first, and original, application san9uis
a

i i

the relationship relationships ' that in the first "iterative" ap-

i

i

xxv xxiv

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Phonolo9U. patterns

in

A

DISSERTATION

ON NATURAL

PHONOLOGY

I

CHAPTER THE

NATURE

A phonological speech

to

the

process

substitute a

presenting

s

ecific

r

be ca

use

i

mp

voicing voicing

a class

alternative

of

voiced

their

or

to

the

stops

are

charact use eristic

d ePends.

There

is

simply

mouth it isthis diothis diffitis bs ervable o

in

of P avoiding

throu

re h t ghe

nasal it

incre

exam p the

nose;

the

of

many

diff

spirant

the

example

plu

s

spirant,

es

the

requir

precisely 1

with

of

lackin

the

icultY which

size

the

e.g.

is

c osur

the

e of

of

the

of

the

in

which

the lack oPs

which

voice:

offer e

these pressure

through the

the

glottis

cavity. sound

sequences:

closure velum. 1

it

lowering

difficult

oral

and

voiced;

suPraglottal

relieves by

of

processes

relieves

and

for

languages

up

articu-

avoids

stops children

suPraglottal

a class

of

which

giving

it

nose

process

other

which

involvin ;

release the

of

the

vibration

without

1 nation i

to

glottal

Young

are

C hndimplosion, relieves whi

An

capacity

voiceless

There

.

nasalization P

asing

speech

of

a Phonological

s p eech

a and

sequences

difficult

obstruction

b Y substituting the

-Haw pronuncia aiian them for

include

in

applies

sound

ut

relatively

t tion of voiced s speakers by

means

that

identical

e am edes the on air sir which

iculty

operation

sounds

class

PROCESSES

y.

For F example, late late

OF

a mental

common p difficulty

an p

FUNCTION

is

for

ind individ ual

diftl:n'

AND

I

If

a

to

articulate

of

the the

nasal velum

sequence because ns to

closes

coincide

of

t

3 2 before

the

oral

articulation

there

resembling

precedes

the

spirant

release,

velar

closure,

articulation,

processes

stop:

a nasal

lacking

or Ends].

oral

there

to this

nts

or

difficulty

closure. •

speech

If

the

is in the interim nzs

The other

oral

in children's

an oral

resembling

responding

an oral

nts

is in the interim

nss

for

Either

release

the

dance

of some English

The inborn

birth

of

all

seem

to

language

All of ,

genetic be

the they

inborn

capacity

capacity

lacking

voiceless

and within

fronted These

overcome

sequences

But in the

meantime

sounds

stop

in various

all

the

the of

consonant

properties,

are not merely

this

the

a

earliest

have mastered

utterances,

25

most of the

not reduced

Pronounce,

they

to silence.

employ substitutes.

random or occasional,

but are

,

and later

pronunciation a Year.1 r

notes.

voiced

stops

Finally,

the

are

ar s

haend hand),

same word as

The child

J'i•v

who

leave

vowel

and all

(e.g.

sn•

final

stops,

finally

as substitutes

child's

repertoire

change

his

physical

to produce

a sound

baba

substitutions:

[w] for

Er] in speech

dog, 1968:15

Jfor

I .

sounds Joan

bread

may at

the

did not appear

Jakobson

but

example;

papa

as Jakobson observed Joan

bed

for nasals: of

Hildegard's

is an interesting

a growling

as in

However,

it to substitution:

substituted

of

peripheral

who substitute

and Sully

result

by maturation.

children

(compare

or to imitate

Jbut

as a direct

not nerely

submit

bidi

Alexandrov

may

lights

eventually

1939:120-1

Children

in play

devoiced

he

in the

as tong nasalized

overcome

LeoPold

1943)

et

nasal

nasalized for

lion).

initial

from my notes)--pronounces

J'a•t

is not uncommon for

dren who dropped

Con-

zad

months e.g.

all

han

consonants

might be explained

at first

may use

language. are

It

for almost

are not ab-

plus

ants

who

But the

belong) , all

its

salmon

themselves

pretty

o

buzad

for

[j}.

1943)-pronounces

nonnasal

J

limitations,

expected

variety, P

as

substitutions

pr~ti o©

says

at fifteen

regularity

correctly

zab , another

One child

man).

phenomena.

vowel

Eats]

sabud

of vowel

This

over.

(e.g.

speech.

leaf,

following

[t ]'s

mae•

physical

respectively

These limitations

children

some

sequences

and

are

some of them in their

they cannot

initial

any

world

stop and a stressed

vowel.

children

side,

(e.g.

he child's

Velten

zuf

J'ae• -Daniel

whatever peoples of

negative

consists

(etc.)

among

of

limitations

the

of their

a

stops

says

dents, nasal plus ofspirant sequences, e.g.

e.g.

nasals

voiced

languages

zab -Joan

z

and all

pronunciation

typically

normal

and sound

substitutes

similar

syllables:

neutral

a few years

with

the

artic ulatoY r

s as

nasal

is observable

individuals

On

r eveal

unas itated

of the

children

acquiring children.

-vowel

i

as nonnasal

seems to be uniform

normal

speech

any P positive

such as [a],

sounds

to

earliest consonant

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to voicing

that

its

and

example

process

which

would

postvocalic from

be

adequately

processes

Danish

already

regard

the

recognized

could

simpler

context

ffrom o f both

a language-universal

point

changes

phonol -

sPirantizat1on

application

in of

spirant-

.

on our

assumption

that

and

others

impossible

by positing

postvocalic

of

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view

would

point

the

of

them .

of

are

not

discussions

voices

the

5but

be described

sPirantizes

processes

in

possible

simultaneously voiced,

of the

position

contemporary

to voicing

are

facts

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depends

these

to

ordering

example,

postvocalic of

t

in Tamil

recognition

Phonological

8in

effects

of

to the

with

Tamil , for

sPzrantized

voicing

whereas

been

to

the

is

as due

unrestricted

are

Danish d

to voicing,

aPP1Y in

sPirantized

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explained

is

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g

51962

underlying

has

ordering

In phonology phonemes

both

is prior

such

the

results

Danish

languages

by the

which

'strop'

and

1969:141

constituent

systems.

that

t is

d

Pretonic

feature.) d

phonemes

features

processes

mulative:

of

as

of

distinctive

t of Danish like

c congener

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neglect and

d

their

examples

exactly

distinctive t and

of

e,gthe

posttonic

posttoni

Danish

invariance

well-known

positions, and

where

the

'overlap',

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by

are

realizations

the

gross

through

own structure.

of

but

Trubetzkoy

this

comparison

Phonological

distinctive

related

that

their

a careful

in

with

to analyze

such

traditional

favor

itself

of

adult

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nineteenth

I think

conviction

the

in

concerned

I

phonology

of

the

for

and

processes

of

processes

z

structuralist

sounds

phonemes

child

in

fails

cases,

previous

the in

mental

view

of

individual

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phonology

analysis

a rejection

abstractions this

most

not

like

in a variety

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led

as

to be suggestive

beginnings

processes.

so long

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the

of

sPirantization

.

intended

of

the fronted

in favor of the neutral

etc.

only

unfortunately

substitutions

processes.

z,

explanations

has

understandable

inexplicable

are

some promising

phonetics of

, etc] s,

remarks

phonetic

explanation

except

alveolars

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century,

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plain

imprecise

question.

are

for

of JbY

uk look later

and raised tongue-Posture of [f,

this

r

and the Scandinavian loss of Germanic *[j], as in Icelandic

ar 'year,

is

or

Its function becomes apparent when we note

that the most commonalternative

23

n

increases the audibility

tuting a sibilant

Jennifer's

15

of

a

stops

fact

such

Danish

be expressed view , this

.

and , an in

that

just analysis

lb is not satisfactory: have to explain voicing

t

it merely adds another

the existence

and sPirantization

is voiced and

of.

but

d were sPirantized

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to the many we

esses

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d

in American English

is not sPirantized•

PostvocalicallY,

of the Danish situation

same processes

process

occur separately:

intervocalicallY,

The analysis

17

but

as resulting

as are found in American English,

and many other languages, but with an ordering

whereas it

was not voiced.

from precisely Old Irish,

if

than

the

at

Tamil

the

from

imposed in Danish

a diversity

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any [j].

process tinct

which simultaneously phonetic

an interesting

that

this

voicing t

that

t

to

analysis

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5s

and sPirantization.

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system will

t

two distinct

If this is so, there is no without

is not overturned

d also being

by any language of

which I am aware.2 The same reasoning children's

speech.

to two processes, of

J

to

both of them: remains

reveals

that processes

analysis

may be ordered in

of Joan's Pronunciation

delateralization

of

I

to

Jand

of [I]

appealed

J'u

lutscht.

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it does not become sPirantized

,

for

speech

capacities,

I

as in Joan's speech. J

mortals

processes

represent, system.

themselves

which

however

have

For vowels,

results

well-attested

languages explanations

of

the have

been

natural are

o f numbers they

children for

may seem

perversely

proposed

.

various There

cross process

Jakobson

which

of

of

limited such

individual

a unified furnish

adult

such

languages

substitutions individually -purposeful which

1968:71-72) plausible

is

processes

involving

to

and of

and J

any sort

to their

to devise

to

I

simple

as these

children

se,

, revealing of

to create

managed

aiming

Jderived

persisted

a system

i s a context-free in

world

result

which

there

has not of

be the

reject

anger

application

treatment

sounds

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to

1

attempt

nature

phonetically

example

Jfor

by

J

its

difficulties

and instead

is no str

except

but two distinct

to specific

to

collective

withholding

difficult

The pronunciations

reveal

to

god of language , free

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d

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can pronounce

oddity

sPirantization

apply

, Joan does.

soon acquired

her earlier

one would surely

does not

Hildegand

of

of

implies

to adapt

responses

a system.

step

complex process

atomistic

global

, Hildegand

a short

the

all

to say postvocalic

substitution

one were

system

sPirantization

, and, as the examples cited show, Hildegand shares u you,

only

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If

from the assumption

as in Tamil , involves

could be voiced and sPirantized

sPirantized.

is

anon

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application

as our analysis

provides us with

in no Phonological

d becomes

the change of

way that

dis-

it

the

was not a single

langage-universal

prediction:

5unless

processes,

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that

modifications,

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become

but selectively

a putative

I

(

inability

withholding

from

systems.

to say

Jat

not in the proc -

Hildegand

of delateraliz

pronounce

attempts

lies

of application

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tog ether in ~just two processes

pronunciations

to the output

Dane's

It].

their

order

Joan cannot she

which is not imposed in Tamil, brings of Phonological

in their

sPirantization

t

in Old Irish

t

but

between

in addition

, .

den asalizes and

in

phonetic a process,

.

18 also

widespread

vowels

in children's

adjacent

to nasals

and adult's

teleolo

Yggestures

g ies

(nasality)

processes-one

in vowels

in general,

spread

the

and

the

Given the

the other

these

then nasalization.

of sequences explanation, in thisphonetic P

feature

processes American

apply, English

first

is that

time

vowels

before

like

si"•n

nations words

mama

in

with

oral

nasals

are nasalized

seen

vowels

beside

before becomes

It are

is

tempting

as

become nasal

However,

there

known to me. are

nasality words "

nasal

e.g.

only ka~t

b3nami

or the

identify before this can't

these

b3nami

nasals

that

rule

vowels as nonnasal.

nasals

is not perceived

versus

remains kat

to indicate cat.

Vowel

tion

in any language

for

the fact

as such, the

even in

with

underlying

denasalization

.

ad1acent

Trench

is adequately

a surrogate

I

the

think

be

fact

denasalizeng

na

French

cited

above

do not substitute

e.gsYllabis

En],

explained

vowels

n3non

that

explained

for a

by the fact

making such a substitution

process for

which

specify

Speakers

and this

process

conditions

examples

sound

fact

constraints

,

cannot

pronounceable

testimony

for

this

it

, whereas

Thus Joan Velten

ats

for [its]

vowel nasaliz

anon.

both involving like

nman] lion, vowel-*

vowel denasalization

nasalitY.5

t o the individualistic

can be shown that . Prior

by a nasalized

known to me that is

not

which

,

surface

processes-potential

words.

the

and

ants

haend hand.

Joan applied

nasalized

The superficial

in

view

conditions'

do

vowels

only

to

negative

as

is no general

says

to

'redundancy

foreigni'

English

affecting

not

but

in

in

customary

due

such a distinction

vowel

comes from forms

that

been

de nasalize

processes

evidence

in general

to

nasalized,

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has

like-essentially

English

against

for

nasalization

as

confronted

example,

ha n

Y

nonnasals.3

vowels

us to account

for

representation

representations

is a general

that

before

their

nasality

on nasalit

restriction:

of such a unified

,

are

there

there

which

the

any similar

that

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rather

derivative)y

nasalized

vowel

representation

of

dictates

underlying

vowels.4

or

they

rnarnan b just

alter-

bon ami,

restrictions

and nonnasal

enables

"

like. theinEnglish mouth

consistent

the assumption

in English

of vowels where

before

Furthermore,

speakers

e.g.

a single

is no evidence

denasalized

English

into

At the same speakers:

,

but even in forei 8n

nasals

to su PPos e that

somehow unified

vowels

si•see

of

certain

speakers

Foreign

not only in native

with

underlying

when

denasalization

ecomes [mama], etc.

on

languages

prohibit

b words with nasalized vowels aretypically denasalized y English French

most

conventions'

that

is an example.

in

a condition

substitutions--but

adjacent

is not too surprising

effect

on

a difficult

permitting

in

realizations

distinct

ssubstitutions. make ions. they What is surprising

both

of

timing

eliminating

in nasality to to a vowel-it

opposite

most languages

1972).

which nasalizes

is capable

involving

Schourup

of these

nasalit

speech,

and which likewise is case

of articulator

19

this

to sort

in which

nan-since

o f nasalization

+

two pieces

processes the

Ian there

o f Phon-

t o vowel denasaliza-

There are

intervening

Ian

purposes

I ~

.

of One

is probably I""an +

nan "

is no evidence

can be caused

by non-

N

1 20 The other Lion process segment

evidence which

in a word:

sabud

nan

stops

is

that

it

can account

for

implied lied

nan

in 'n

to progressive

etc.)

tion

allows

at

applies

it

a

that

t

Ian

am M. We

at which

for a peculiar VeIten

noted

onlyY bef before

u

(286),

9, d> z> w> etc.

not before

room, beside

Joan's

ham ham.

,

other Now

Of

sonorants

before

subcase

a word

2

regressive nasalized

nasalized

denasalization

and

4

segments I

of

denasalization

all

x

wum

samun

hum

ham

Ian

na

1

wum

samun

hum

am

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na

2

wum

samun

hum

ham

nn

na

3

wub

sabud

hub

ham

nn

na

4

wub

sabud

hub

ham

nan

na

iterative

each two

are

regressive in

Joan's

can part

be

paralleled

of

English

nasalization

speech.

She

in

corrects

other

vowel though the

after

children

is,

phonetically,

vowel h

h

whereas

1972

and

ingly,

in Joan's h

izabilitY

a breathy

in

ham

of

vocalics

an

inverse

Joan's

vowel

nonsyllabic

pronunciation is

a is

It

is

of

nasalization

well of their

established their

process

high

nonsYllabics

such

as

w

or

uh

u .,

that

the

syllabicity

height

, namel namely to

following

of home is presumably

o function

function

copy of the

Chen

seems ah

to • ,

be it

Consequently,

.

Accord-

limited does

, having ~ suppressed

and

progressive

nasal-

Schouru P 1971

291

not while

in

to

like

vowel

extend andnonhigh syllabics nonsYllabics

feres

with

the

and

denasalization

their

inner

un-English

denasalization

The existence vowel

the

contrary

in

and

a reverse

order

order

a year

Phonetic

articulation

complexities

nasalization

in the

independence

and vowel

denasalization the

3

of

contrary

teleologies. which and

of single

Context-free

eliminates acoustics segments.

(

287n

be

2 291). like

sought

ultimately

processes--

a feature of

Velten

N

Processes

must

from

later

of

meantime

nasalization

and

denasalization

.

h

a

vocalics: non

processes

n

segments

of

this

becomes

lion

and

de-

nasalization

ham

languages,

that

a

iterative

home

these

of

progressive

salmon

on

speech

that

room

This assump-

in Joan's

by eonsYllabics

in

na

condition

as

1

progressive

prior

as in

Joan has

I

iterative

nonnasal

Nh N aam

to

wub .b

or nonhigh

include

progressive

vowel denasalization

wub

would 3

process

applies

[hub],

of syllabic N

is nasalized

N home uumandroomwumis not , and it causes

To summarize

am + Earn] M would then con-

naturally

home, like

In replaces

lion

of ham

nasalization:

denasalization

denasalization.

was triggered

hub

Ian

of derivation

which

denasalization

pronunciation

progressive

denasalization

caused

vowel,

after

f

lion.

e.g.

nonsyllabic hN

follows

the vowel nasalization

since

and

for

by vowels that

Tan

the stage

us to account

although

h

b assuming by

-(- naan --

zad

the

a non-nasal

clearly

the progressive

is not triggered

applies,

progressive that

about

denasaliza-

following

This process

i , this

denasalization

denasalization non

thing

this

tam p no nonnasal

segments

we would have

nasalizing

The peculiar

process

all

salmon.

otherwise

when Joan

a context-dependent

denasalizes

I -nasalizanon fact

involves

21 N aham

that

inter-

vowels-respond

Segments

are

to often

22

23

compounded

of properties

which compromise

fore

are

processes

which eliminate

one property

at the expense

there

emphasizing the vowel

a

may Y be viewed

as a compound of Since

alataliY

ness ness,

the vowel

There

is

of its

alata1itY

clearly

sonority:

1

2

Lowering,

3

De a 1 ata 11zation

to into

e

Finally,

}

ee

are

ization might

as

to which be noted

is

that

susceptible), lax

syllables

once

almost

necessarily Miller,

the vowel com-

which splits

4

ultimately

its

are

and nature from these.

especially

of these

Assimilation

to the optimal

latively,

to which

The formulations

of Miller

1972a

+

Diphthongiza-

processes

1972b,

4

vowel are seems to are

and StamPe

ai

the result

followed by a maximally narrow

of a single

in the

In addition

segment

processes

For example,

diPhthongization

the

of contrary

conditions

speech.

Context-sensitive

there

in informal,

Applied

is a process 3 Height aPP1Y cumu-

to a final sequence

Processes

under which they

aPP1Y most generally

is more frequent

-'- [hi].

process,

ee

altogether

[e l.9

teleolagies

dialects

[all

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these processes

which eliminates

contrary

affecting

1 Palatal

This is subject

.,

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most generally

by two processes

If all

is tel.

that

segments which

on behalf of the syllabic:

-} ae .

and

A diphthong like [aLl ,, requires

in fell.

the ponsYllabic II,

There are processes

2 Height Assimilation,

they result

radical

organs which are quite

of the eonsYllabic:

mi , and

The contrary clear

a vowel to a feature

by substituting

the sequence .

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in favor It

here

into

on behalf

[ail

affecting

of the

difficulties

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cumulatively

the

susceptible).

properties

better

one of the

of Raising

which assimilates

in speech of normal tempos.

the syllabic

of sequences of segments,

Sequences of segments often require

respond to these 'blend'

which respond

of segments, there are context-sensitive

movements of the articulatorY

difficult

tion,

processes,

which respond to complexities

context.

one.

fronted.

but retains

complexities

a maximally open tongue aperture

palatalitY: it

sonorize

segment:

Two

and of Lowering g and De

the essential

revisions

of its

but keeps

b~Y the application

the existence

duee too Patricia 1972.

or

the vowel.

each to polarize single

properties.

at the expense

the vowel,

[eel, which develop

especially

understood follow

or

precise

is a process

permitting

of the original

y open-

of these

to these context-free

vowel nasalization

and sonority

the expense

cumulatively

there

e.g, of its

i , narrows

backs

phoneticians, a -ness. P

palatality

the vowel,

e P -' [A],

two halves,

diphthongs glides

at

ae ~ opens

two applied

a

two properties tion

--

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pletely vowel

a

sonority

+

processes,

or

a compromise

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with sonority

its

to the inner

compromises,

Indian

by narrowness

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and there-

of another.

J' -ness

represents

its

these

the ancient

which increases

increase

heig ht

or

is maximized

one process

Processes

with

each other,

of vowels like and extreme processes, alleero

are

particularly

tend

in formal

to aPP1Y. lento

speech.

[ml in Appalachian

in slow or hYFerarticulated on the other speech.

hand,

For examule,

apply in the

I 24 same Appalachian like

a ,i

dialects

25

the monophthongization

to Em] is more frequent

i n raid

of diphthongs

effects tion,

o r hYPoarticulated

speech.

typical

ordering

systems.

teleologies

earlier

of vowel

sensitive

nasality

syntaginatic

difficulty

to adjacent

nasals).

often

are

only

responsible

for

the

for

our

for

our pronunciation as {skritsi

normally

ui dozens

govern

which merely

govern

stops

of the

of forms like lax

stop in

of foreign .

if

speech

let's

to

of context-sensitive

sko

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s9in skin

is

is

k

to

all

to contrary

it

may not

of casual

traditionally

which extend

their

productive

constraint

as can be seen in its in foreign

no matter

words applies:

how rapidly

for

this

their

constraint

vowels

or relax -

Additional

evidence mostly

detail,

and

for

d gin. t . fr

In all the

these

process

rnei " "nl i

lost

Jennifer

examples producing

and found

speakers

kme "• n like

matinly

also

faust examples

syllabication blocked by re nasalization

surface

nasality

ou .ne nonnasal

or

observed

like

FromkLn 33

a n underlying

of reprethe One

identify

invariably

can and

moon NN I I

slips

or Pig Latin

level

in StamPa 1968 .

even in forms which like

representa-

I have discussed

English

by Fromki n 1911.40

i Dst n faund

than the

phonemic .

come s from blends

ones is

on underlying

underlying

vowels,

motivated

motivated

in some detail

as non nasal

with nasalized

phonetic

constraint

already:

pronounced

moustII „

of paradigmatically

synt agmaticallY

called

b

speech ~

kaet

be less

has been mentioned

for

, it ~

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to which the process

ordering

applies s9o

style

for an important

that

for

s9rit•si i

process

The study

processes

are

as a voiceless

Italian this

tion,

sort

in English

9'o is reduced .

which

[S I, which

words like

In informal

devoicing

representations.

tautosYllabic

responsible

sentation

in a language

speech

context-free

way.

le vowel nasality

does not become

prior

evidence processes

representations

after

absence

surface

is a fully

representa-

edlYy one sPeaks . 10

processes

though by no means exclu-

in this

in " English

to nonderivab

The characteristic

Phonolog-~

effects

representation

can't

their vowels

underlying

sPeech,context-sensitive

representations: undergoes

vowels of English

its

to superficial

to find a single

denasalization

is no casual

kit

context-sensitive.

underlying

apprehension

to surface

those

to aPP1Y to surface

devoicing

grzzzz

which

there

maximizes

assimilating

extends

vowel

application

but minimizes

speech

predominantly

in casual

permitted

vowels

which

on underlying

to the context-

This order

predominantly

while

are

a process

turns

Processes

context-free,

govern

prior

representation

I have been unable

although

Phonological

of the underlying

in connected

in the

the context-free

is ordered

in individual

representations

normally

in English

distinctness

(eliminating

Indeed

that

themselves

in mature

of vowel nasalization.

paradigmatic

representations

manifest

Processes

denasalization

process

sively)

also

of contrary

I noted

process

ical

but

process

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the

on underlying

are

mrt

m2nt.

me1ts i i , but without n I Jnd with

as in singing d E.ni.fr for vowel

is blocked.

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own, etc.

surfaces

when

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i 26 cannot

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nasal

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28 suffices

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41

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for

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high vowels

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to mid.

imply high vowels

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by conflicting

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languages,

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from systems

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referred

to systems

of the

the system,

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causalities.

causalities

involved

attempted

causalities.

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of Phonological

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1943) and in hi storicalcal us

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children

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I have sketched above on pages

22-24.

to

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have seen, processes respond to phonetic difficulties in ways that > wik t t ti n are appropriate but which may conflict with other processes. The

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42 systems

enables of processes inclusion 1n the theory of phoneme

CHAPTER Miller

to

account

straightforwardly

formed

errant,

vowevowelsystems as

which

Jakobson's

and

remain

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for to

discover

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us

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to

my remark

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process Yand be

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linguistic

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basis

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presuppose data

data

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in

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case

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phonology,

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language.

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any

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are

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representations

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45

44 when processes tions

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processing

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occur,

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phonetic

behavior.

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constraints, after

are

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language

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learned

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reality

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may appear

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that

of 'slips

and

of reality

if

evidence

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explanations. The assumption

only

represents

is a

,

47

46 for

a monolingual

English

speaker

to

suspend

the

innate

processes.

process

it governing

aspiration

syllables;

this

k hatste

of i s

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of tonic

voiceless

reflected

in

skat

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thoJP

to aspirate

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as in

pat+t

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petite,

aspiration

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be suspended

beside [gatje]

but it requires

etious In the following

to

discussion

innate

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it is essential

that the distinction

for

these

two

classes

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have

a

failure

work

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characteristics. to

make b Ymarred

in

phonology

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di the stinction

are

by

governed

properties

f processes

conversely,

certain

have properties

acquired b een o of

optional,

may be optional;

in fact

to

have

been

fact

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brings to

and

the

supposed

in s P eech of the

infant

Old

English

shortened:

before

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applying

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in sequence. as

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the

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language

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in

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failure

to distinguish willingness which

origins. there

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to

attribute

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to

out

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1968

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processes

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certain As.a

from on the mistaken assumption that all

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attributed

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spoonerism

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difficulty.

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example,

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stops in words like Gurkha where the stress

does not fallow the stop.

obstruents

at

treatm

stops in French wards like

failure

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to

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to as

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trisYllabic ~ that

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not shortening

49

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of

vowels

speakers

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phonological

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of

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English,

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ad,e)res

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from Old to Middle English

because

of the

divinity

d o v, a, nE i. n

consonant

the shortening

the one process,

is needed

da,vrc.a.ti '"

contrast

the preceding

for

the change

,

zCr.a.wi ~

vowel in the Old and Middle English

~'an

responsible

to explain

the

blets.i.

[n],

words were shortened

condition is

in manY dialects)

forced

of supporting

compare Modern English

of syllable-final

likewise

IrisYllabic of

syllable;

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odd

sort

a weak vowel is incapable

z i ro

flapping

seems

by its

in its

beside

nation).

changes

language

that

with

unconnected

same way.

sort

be subject

out

divinity

nonetheless

the

brackets.

thoroughly,

in closed

bracket,

in the

argument,

changes were

the

why these

simultaneously

beauty

vice

reality

'stirrups',

process: V

C.CC

Old and Middle

more

shortening

syllabicated real that

were

Old English

C

to explain

inception

and

investigated

simultaneously

s t2rope ~ s > st ti ropes

motivated

their

out

is motivated

C

possible

speakers,

changes

constraints

points

C.

aPP1Y before

shown by the

phonetically in

a psychologically '

Kiparsky

By recognizing

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least

shortenings,

> husband

constraints

that

represents

-~ -long

husband

> divinity

device

both

V

Middle English:

example evidenced

in for

no recourse analysis

brackets

historical in

to

it is a

from doubly-

the brackets which

syllables;

in this and a sound

to case psychchange.

51

50 Another the

cognitive

formulation

extended

would them

not

+

processes

principles

governing

in

any

language.

In

by

the

nasality

a process process would

example),

superficial

nasality

it

all

impossible

nasality

tautosYllabic and

clearly

indicates. denasalization

this

Phonological

against

the

speech,

vowels

does not occur,

is

as

before

impossible

analysis: thereby

the

Perceived evidence

determined

of

analysis

cited

in

there

is

when segments

deleted

are

nasalized,

of the

My third

processes

involved just

this

ordering

argued

I

process

in casual e.g.

Sons'. cussion,

1-1- e'ma

nt'i r~a1--

a avnnea h1fI n li Z1? 'f:"''?

of the English

196$

e.g.t

I have attempted

he rule

here is in the

proposed

the formation

is no reason

in

phonologic al

analysis

of the use of cognitive of processes

bY

of the imperfect

to expect

logical

reflecting

is the trisYllabic didn't

exist,

devices

concerns

of contradictory

innate

a recent

Processes. shortening

S Anderson

appropriateate proposal

One of the process,

(1969:

which i i

137-43

CV C V of Middle English e. g , baleen

were lowered:

Anderson's

which lengthened

stressed

OE bacan

The vowels

V '

formulation

simplified

-I-long 1-high

etc .

wik wekks `week/weeks ' , Sun SaI28S ' Son

is: +stress

.3lcl -3- I h1 I n l -+ r hi 1 f11. }»iman

device

capacity.

in open syllables

so lengthened evidence

of the variable

is

process

and another vowels

rules

it It

may seem as a strategy

there

speech

in the analysis the

scat

to be imposed on constraints

example

regarding

-}

What I wish to emphasize

to describe

V + -long

explains

are

limitations

in

context-

unequivocal

356-7

sort

cites

a

Chapter

between

nasalization

to nasalization

before

of acquired

devices

to rules

variable

the device

languages,

of this

9- stE "a

by ChomskY and Halle

plausible

formulation

denasa lization

has been employed in recent

of in Stampe 1912.

however

I have

invariant

the merits

in West Semitic

is

as nonnasal

distinguishing

Besides,

fact

here

proposed

ChomskY and Halle

in

senate

Vowel Shift to dispose

reciprocal

s"iat

The controversial

apparently,

English

occurring

to discuss

mental

application

with

e.g.

analysis

by a context-sensitive

invariably

and context-sensitive perception.

to

to the hypothesized

analysis.

that

nonnasals.

segment

due

make

this

be reciprocally

why vowels

the

also

The reciprocal

phonologically

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exposed

is

there

vowels

each case where it

of

that

to

nasals.

vowels

languages,

reciprocal

elegance

and,

followed

to explain

are

similar

free

before

would

in English

vowels seems

vowels

i.e.

nasal

English

been

which

to be an incorrect

appearance

vowels

but

of a following

this

denasalizing

make

has

nasal

For example,

nasals

I argued

denasalizing

vowel

nasalizing

seems

I,

or nonnasalitY

an apparent

which

in

as reciprocal

7) .

nasalization

Chapter

process where

a role

variable

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the

languages

before

nonnasals.

of

In

but

alpha

Chapter

nasal

notwithstanding,

no Phonological

the

play

nnasal

before

formulation

is

1968:

make vowels

nonnasal

rules

to be expressed

anasal

only

indeed

Phonological

ChomskY and Halle V

might

to processes

assimilation

changes

which

of acquired

uncritically permits

device

CV

slightly

for

this

dis-

,

52 He notes

that

single

if

form,

in which eveZ

they

they

give

incorrect

evil

do not

form

result

from

sumer-e

shortening

x

x

lengthening

*eveles

notes

that

would

not

either

order

s

had somor

had

explainable

sumere

ivel-es

sumer-es

lengthening

eveles

sameres -

* eveles "

*someres "

shortening

lengthening

properly

includes

the

context

of

the

shortening

Citing

a parallel

proposes

that

process

and

the

principle

when

two processes

applies

and

examples

cited

correct

forms

the

general

the

2veZes

one

each

does

lengthening and

not .

process

sumeres

would

,

.

or

a grammarian

would

be

totally

here

makes

no

like point

of

rules

proposed In any processes,

which are

b y its

disjunctive event

the by

would

positing

the

are

about

formulate

a specific

b Y a more

These

language

as a hypothesis Panini

in

eradicated

language. the

sense

general

imposed

rules; rule

rule.

on learners

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how a language

changes

if But

the

correct it

by the

1 earners.

And it

is no t at

principle

should

be a pPlicable

principle way that

seems

to be fals ified

allophonic

prope rties

were

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s

all

of

imposed clear to

at

of

speaking

why processes.

fact

on is

e .g.

iv.e.les,

these

e.g.

ivies,

syllabicated

on

by the

the

surnres. hand

clusters with

the

nonoccurrence the

short

the

preceding thus

least

for

left,

sounds

are

The same

consonant closing

syllabications

the

vowel and

of

these

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apparently it

so that words

out

the

and

special turn

for

due

ated

the

bY

len

gthening

'son /sons'.

clusters

before were

is

also

confirmed

like

c2

man

weak

syllable

lengthening persist

,

that

in Middle

was too

into

C

lengthened

these

.

pointed

so . nes

were

in words

forced

syllable

when

syllable

lengthening I

vowels

patron

following of

final

context

such

. Again

corrobor

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in ' which

, e.g.

is

in sun

that able.

was in

variants

as

to which

English?

their

syncopated

was

b y words

this

e

would

fact

was of

g th

nasals

inexplic

which

syllable;

have

before

make the

because

sum .e.res,

medial

forms

other

two-consonant

where

forms

confirmed

the

the

irisYllabic

up to

to any vowel

process

I

denasalizln g

proposes

I have already

to

of

fully

of Middle

shortening

that

the

for

is

as nonnasal

the

weakness

English,

effects not

context

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vowels

not apply

.

Chapter

Anderson

two processes faulty

in

process

condition

Perceived

the

shown

representations

apply , and would

see m; to be

syllabication,

rule,

nature

, processe

learner

about

general

would

later

was

nasalizing

disjunctive

phonologically

applied

the

the

process

As

nonnas al .

governs

den asalization

what

analysis

there

we are

are

that

specific

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the

obviously its

that

nasalization

the

assume

the

.

underlYing1Y

o f context

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predict

that

are

we

the

applies.

to

result. This

if

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contradict

vowels

that

vowels

of Panini's

representation

regardless

point

form

underlying

English

vowels

of application:

base

*so metes

three-syllable

apply

strm©r , it

in

all

the

specific

the

for

English

ignored

order

of

Anderson

in

2 el , Middle

the

context

CV C V .

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of

the

process

the

regardless

formulated

CV

other,

aPP1Y to a

as

process

grammar,

, a s formulated,

results

and

ivel-es

Anderson

53

processes

For Old English

'evil/of

forms

base

these

aPP1Y

iveles

These

both

did

et

c.,

to carry to the not

a

pply.

in Modern English

55

54 P„ei.tran

note

2

sir.

[me. i

syllable-final zation of

of

a vowel

C,

principle

sumeres

of

disjunctive like

do

real

seem

the

sequence.

all

of

that

have

be.

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been

seems

process

on

that

for

this

to

ized

sequential

an optional

optionally segment

nasalized:

kLi as

hii r~

in

the

beyond which

e.g.

process

vowel

of

as

that

flap '

involves

could

the

dependence

of

the

the

first

optional

process,

in

It

seems

rapid. is like

in

beside

s~i

deletes

flaps

, e.g

k Lri

applies

before

, the

preceding

vowel if

the

a nasal-

in

won

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the

output

button

not

bra?n " )

wodn each

process

is

wooden

of

these

strictly

of a separate

obvious

explanation

anon

applies

to

apply

to the

output

simultaneous

the

operations

and

for

output

of

this

the

other

are

package'

due

I propose

an example,

1

and

of

i n (2-1)

to linear

explaining neural

an alternative

unfortunately

rather

be much more

one after

8)

it

In

generative in fact

been

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and

b99' o lz

has

who argues 2

labial

hamn'-um

sequence

the

processing another

has

1969

syncope

bo99ul2

could

line .

in some words , e.g.

} ho"m rum

possibility as

of

processes?

of speech

ordered.

by S. Anderson

sequence

the

out

Chapter

linearly

processes

the

strung

1968•

of other

neurology

on an assembly

however,

1-2

the

are

Halle

processes

application

that

processes

'to

of processes

give

that

-} hamrum

on

and

conjecture

the

Before is

that

challenged,

Icelandic

doubt

nasals:

ation

o f the

of an optional

before

not nasaliz

output

or novaPPlication

nasaliz

ChomskY and

a99ul-i

is flap

and

that

hammers'

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consonants

processes

consecutive

been

[bra?]

true

sequence.

obvious

linear,

nasalizes seen

that

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applied

spin

nonnasal

unrelated

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glottals.

of the

application

is

occur,

w"n o n

on the

a doubt . Consider vowels

voiced

dependent

assumed

.

b nn ).

application

phonology

process

deletion

remains

not

not

optionally

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if

they

of

the

process,

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an optional

, and

discussed

hSriqhztt2n9' This

of

operation

If

.

cases,

, ffor

most

sequence

wodn

not

deleting

nasalizing

not

does

process b nn

dependence

processes

that

or nonaPPlication

obligatorily,

kit

problematic

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as conclusive

output

application

segments is

not

commonplace

I have

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the

aPP1Y simultaneously

I am aware

the

o f English

see.

apply

can be under-

accepted

optionally

are not

h"ci ~ q

an optional

process

did

of

functions.

aPP1Y in

are

the

nasal

nasali-

The contexts

to

these

processes

evidence

fairly the

many of

to be generally

their

before

.

deleted;

of

of

corrected

appealing

phonetic

establishes Process

nasal}

of why lengthening

in a system

are

typical

obligatory

, as

without

their

conclusive

this

the

to some characteristics

of a process

like

and

lengthening

of whether

given

n

not

syllable-final

flapping

a tautosYllabic

to show

of

processes

application

second

and

It

and

solved

to turn

question

in

of

application.

reflections

example,

Cases

is

instead

obligatory

The problem

or

I would

as

the t

and

exclusive,

iveles

stood

note

preceding

shortening

that

t

iratervocalic

mutually to

syllable-Initial

umlaut 'to

in others

This

sequential

that

the , - e.g.

conclusion

casts

application

structure,22 explanation complex,

, I would that

throws

like

to

somewhat

r

56 clearer

light

processes

on the nature

than do the

57

of the nonlinear

examples

is chosen

from American English

readily

confirmed

by the reader.

three

flapping,

require

but if

attaches

the syllable

to its

left

attached

to the

syllable

responsible

which ical

for

it can be several

are

,

syllabication

ego,

,

filter.

Bothe

veto.

t€ r• e. b !

is subject

above in Old and

to various

a, dP a t

Left-attachment:

syllabication

from phonologisis

are

to mention existence not

relevant spectrograh formants

vowel

structure

The

application

is

has not received

are

many

to

the

example

include

Palatalization

palatal

vowel,

ig,.]

eagle

o r phoneticians,

stops

only

syllable,

e.g.

dis.t

the fact

that

morphologically table

some of the phonetic and location

difficult cues.

to 'hear' The chief

P Ys are undergo

digress

and Phonological

of syllable

boundaries

.

it deserves briefly

evidence Syllable

once one has become conscious phonetic

the modifications

in ta utosyllabic

of the

cues , which are verifiable ('transitions') contact

with various

that

boundaries

tion

vowel

stages

.

* ri{

,

be one

would Prior

arise

be .

Others

contact okey

,

a

and

to

in a stre

ssed

sense

the stable.

, as is shown b y

syllable

in casual

divisions speech

ns of distaste

the

and this

, syllabication them

syllable .

as it attaches

For example, sno~

Otherwise

words

• . ,

rr . I

real

,t

! •4kt .rc k

and de sYllabifica intermediate

containing

or n _l

optionally

with simultaneous

exactly

optionally

chapge .

to de syll abification

with

ma, st e i k mistake,

The attachment

n-syllable

.

and thz ,stab Ze, with t accordingly

sYllable snowy,

to

alluded

which applies

basic

, attaching

I4kt.rLk

with

leading

versus

sY1labicatio

vowel whose

will

segment

For example

syllabics

simultaneous

which

onset

boundaries

ouk•t •

the first

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optionally must

versus

the

syllable

sYllabic

in the full

them .

sno

processes

the

thistable versus 5a •Stelbl

to an adjacent

r ~l

electric

in

eonsYllabics

optionally

from

is

to establishing

to an adjacent

of

ego; o• aspiration,

to dz.s taste

to unstressed

of

tauto

distaste

constrained

unasPirated.

eonsYllabics

in

' iokay

eis t

alter

desYllabification

for

velars

is a process

may be relaxed

applies

, some

at

offset

of

discussion

i f they are

in addition

f CIc • r Prab•a, ~ b {i

this

' •9ou

the

placement

o S ' •theIbl parallel

Syllabication

.

the

~oue,kh

voiceless

echo

I should perhaps

of

versus s

at

occur

comes

English

which

e.g.

VC .V

evidence

in

to

modifications

in

on

examples

it can optionally

the attention

right

dependent

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the

phonological

despair,

animate,

V . CV these

to

left.

remaining

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the

the

to

probably.

here

of

da] sPE' r

e•k o

aen,a mat

syllabication

morpholog-

syllable

adopt ,

the

constraints

involving

on permissible

terrible

and the

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s discussed

went.

to its

is instead

to the example at hand

right-attach v• to

is unstressed

left.

and constraints

with

to the syllable

the eonsYllabic

to its

The process

boundaries

right

is stressed

not relevant

Examples

to its

In

the

processes

discussion:

a no nsYllabic

the syllabication

English.)

.9o

It involves

some preliminary

syllable

Middle

so that

The

and flap-deletion.

Syllabication right;

of

of Anderson and others.

example

of which

application

syllabics

n+1

syllabics ri •I

)

-

,".0

58 prior

to attachment.

universally

These intermediate

unpronounceable

such representations reason

fore

given

phonetic

it

that

that

since the

the attachments

in Phonologzeal

, that

optional

out by the same process

that

derivations

nor

they could

basic

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that

of processes

establishes

is to

occur.

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is carried sYllabicatzons

segments

as the attachments

are

evidence

desyllabification

of de syllabified

same principles

is neither

the function

difficulties

seems clear

representations

, and there

ever occur

to believe

eliminate

59

obey precisely

of under)YingIY

In casual

three

released

apical

vowels final

stops

including position.

atorily

saddest,

raer. i $N ~r. r

syllabics,

boar. i sae; ast

at

ratty.

derivation

i s taken

reduction

has

ha rr

elides batting, $i c . r

r

i

thinner,

ooptionally

end of the previous

paragraph.

already

To abbreviate

applied .

because

there

Unstarred

0,

other

1.

syllabication:

2.

flapping:

with

stage

anon;

, the

, t o which vowel

* davC r nat

fnd3

* da ,v'~n.a.ti

f nd 3

da.v'r.a.t~

fnd3

which

. options.

ry

4.

flap-deletion:

har .a s

5.

syllabication:

saer , ast

6,

vowel-nasa

1,

a-harmony:

da.vT~.tI

8.

shortening:

de.vi.

9.

syllabication:

i

da.vt.e.t

i

*da.via.ti

lization:

of

each other

s ubstitutions

da.vrr.e.t

,

i .vi" i. fdn

mark forms which are

obligatory

N

fudge.

e-application

forms are pronounceable

processes

da

the discussion

The asterisks are

like

and r

interwoven

vowel-nasaliz

welded,

in most American idioms .

-initial

the doctor,

bae. ir;

above

3.

is oblig-

,

hearty , 1 w£fr , ad

i s obligatory

in syllable-initial

r

application

divinity

fnd3 fndj fnd3

da.vt.t

i

fnd3

.

in syllable-final

optionally

segment

baer . irbatting

syllable

after

in syllable-

with h-deletion

to be discussed

flaps

flaps

to something

up at an intermediate

have not applied.

, which changes

corresponding

voiced

hothouse

~

is flapping

V > etc)

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3a.rakt]

oPP1Y to flaps the

haws

process

1•

a following

have optional

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to the

no naPical

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e.g.

optionally

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thinner,

mental.

Some speakers

[t,

r

hat

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mef.1'

to be discussed

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voiced: rat

not

process

example , the phrase

the

discussed

processes.

unpronounceable

noesY1lablc

involves

processes

and with other

for the

it can be reduced

derivation

. 23 segments The second

speech

and its the

ready

applications

before

vet o .24

vi.ro

10.

flapping:

is flap-deletion

, which

11.

flap-nasa

position

For example,

12.

flap-deletion:

optionally

13.

syllabication:

14,

vowel-na

saer, ast $i" .r i position

.

saddest,

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does cited

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phrase,

hzation.

salizatzonl '

it

the

not most

,

fnd3 tnd3

da.vrr.

i

f nd3

da.vC7.

i

fnd3 fnd3

da.vi.i

does is

t i

*da .vrt.i

derivation nor

fnd3

*da.vi

i

fnd3

da.vi

i

f nd 3

exh aust extreme

th e pons reducti D

able pronunciations a possible,

but it

of

{t I

60 should

suffice

to illustrate

each other.

They do not apply

and re-apply

whenever

At 1 syllabication at

2 Produces

at 4.

puts

of the

stressed

syllabication this

at any time

t

at 10.

].eke

do not occur ., and it

until

the

resyllabication

tonic

position.

the

the

ante

below to cases

nasality,

this but

flap

post-

removes an obstacle

to

sequential

way that

processes

aPP1Y.

i s imposed on

nonrandom application: of flapping

* da .vC.a.t Flap- deletion performed

o r rapid

example establishes Icelandic

process

re-applies

.

over .

the vowel

This completely of

sPeech.25

that

processes

aPP1Y

example two proces in other

ses apply

forms

b ut

The d vtinz t~ fudge derivation

is possible

applications

it

characteristic

in some forms and in the other

.

There are no fewer

of syllabication

and flap-deletion.

It is this

us to characterize

the application

To understand , shows

to the output

the

re-application

by many casual-speech processes

gesture

that

, as in casual

s not

y occur.

t o vowel-nasalization

is particularly

In Anderson's

in one order

segment

in which the

of vowel- nasalization

of application

iterative)y.

languages

prior

application

Furthermore

deleting

behind which would be extended

substitutions

neither

in other

applied

nasality

processes

shows J

than four

and two each of fl

freedom t o re -apply

that

cf these

processes

should apply

like

apping

enables

as a random

sequence.

In the example there

is only apparent. only the

in immediately

but also

subsequent

distinct

and other

would seem to be the nonoccurring However,

flap-

these

of application.)

were to aPP1Y immediately

it becomes syllable-final

where an ordering

seems to indicate

optionally

more at 13.

which is paralleled

random nonlinear

return

that

at 12 again

involving

of

and other

flap-deletion

optional

application

have flapped

t

Thus if

.

random order

a repre-

with syllable-initial

at 5 Put

only in English

by the

flap

application

of flap-deletion

would leave

can apply ,

The third

to another

until

flapping

[o] , produces

could

arise

could not become syllable-final

a

Flap-deletion

in English

sequence

thing

of

which occurs

derivations

I will

t

"" da.vr~.a.i

deletion,

This example,

Its

is true

aPP1 Y

obstruent

at 5 .

at 9 : leads

but it is not deletable

at 9 (pronunciations

clearly

the relatively

re syllabication

time to

resYllabication

context .

to which flap-deletion

process,

with

they would eliminate

vowel and the unstressed to

interact

order , but rather

into a flapping

by eliminating

vulnerable

flapping, g,

n

a representation

the

sentation

in a linear

the configurations

Flap-deletion,

between

61

the way the processes

classical and

if flap- deletion

before

at 2

between

the result nasality.

does not eliminate tongue

I think

Syllabication

is only one

i , lacking

by the

sufficient

this

term

the phrasing

it

stands

to

processes

the

depend

0n

. and

principle

these,

reason

occurs

stress-assignment but

their

and 'con-sonants+

syllabication

resolving of

to understand

determines

therefore

here

why processes

of

that are

accent

above

suggested , in

turn

derivation

s

functions

in part should

too

it i

.

(to use th

some mutual

syllabication

priority

the

of 'sonants' It depends

(There

syllabication In

respective

this

an stress , be est

averY , for

ablished

dependencies

complex

here

e

to e

seems

xplore

capable

large example,

number every

of

.

63

62 Process is

is

at

least

obligatory

dependent

syllable-finally

nasalization

is

e.

partially

sa r

obligatory

s2

NNN

within

sa 7. r

.

Flap-deletion

and

syllabication:

optional

and

sa~•,nai

occurs only syllable-finally, within syllables,

syllables

thus it occurs at 8 but not after

and shortening

In Chapter

of each of

[31w and

this may be left

for the reader

sufficient

the application

of syllabication

of segmental processes like

that sonority

(syllabic)

condition:

of

segments eliminates

is

impossible

cannot rN ,

be a

flap-deletion

flap-deletion. completely

attached

can

be

in

sequence given

to

it

is

flanked

either.

But

resYllabified.

depends The

natural,

because

the

of the

first

functions

when

Thus

depends and

of

the

less

in

turn

on is

with

processes

to

had applied

to pronounce

two-thirds Instead,

lam lamb

J'ard yard

-

dePalatalization:

zaem

zard

zak

other

jam

zab

zad

zak

processes:

us to understand

of segments. segments

to

of the sounds

is a tYPical

due to resYllabication interplay

example.

of the

of the conditions sYllabications

and inadmissible

which nasalizes

if they are

sYllabications

results

pronunciations:

)

why some processes

Nasalization,

obligatorily

alternative

the alternative

admissible

enables

otherwise,

the

J

ak Jacques

ard

latter

z ,

they applied

m

to nasal

ones.

simultaneously,

-

from [a],

on

changed

to eliminate.

form:

which has the the

This is true

-

optionally

sonorant

the very

sequence:

aPP1Y to strings prior

flap-deletion

re-applications

processes.

for

desYllab-

syllabication,

place,

applications

by

supposed

The same logic

the syllable

* airzn . In da.v&.a.ti

If these

sPirantization:

illustrate

in sequence. simultaneous

creating

are eliminating.

Joan Velten

delateralization:

This

to be pronounceable;

J.

are

adult

by the

are transposed

and must be resYllabified

a

and

airnz] irons '

to

in the natural

depend in turn on flap-deletion.

I

apply

as well as context-conditioned

I, we saw that

the processes

from the margins to the peak

Words like

* ainrz

The point

processes

neural

processes,

in some processes

processes

about

naturally

of individual

she would have ended up having

before they do.

is restricted

if any two nonsyllabics

example, * arinz ication

must increase

of a syllable.

is impossible,

which

applies

from the fact that syllabication

condition

this

himself with.

and this dependency seems

to explain why syllabication

But the re-applications

follows

to divert

However,

function

other

to speculations

why Processes

would result

of context-free

It would be

they depend as they do on syllabication.

specific

configurations

occurs only in interior 14).

have to appeal

to explain

application

•

to show why, given the phonetic functions

they do depend on syllabication,

Given the

optional

sa~N,nai Sinai).

these processes,

is that

organization

vowel-

_a-harmony is near) Y

obligatory

possible

and

otherwise

or

We do not

flapping

otherwise

syllables

signer,

{INN

on

toutos

1labic

In a word like bar.ou.irlor

glide

of

sonorants and

borrowing,

bar.o.wioou , derived

of the nasalization

process

in a complex pattern

of

h

i 64 ,;b' ar,ou. bar.ou.V I

65

i ,

*b ar.o.wiO

irl

* bar.o.wIO

N

bar.ou.N

I

i

I NN bar.ou .~w I N

N N

bar.ou,

N

the

bar.o, N w r~ r l

But this

I

fudge derivation,

applications

are

by the lack

quite

sentation since it

i.e,

to reason

that

the

unaFPlied

The correct

unrestricted prior

of sounds it will

these

forms

application to a nasalized the process

even when the

sequence

due to the application

in derived

this

and of their

on which its

To

application

depends.

to justify

it

doesn't

segment.

despite

And

apical its

could

sequential explain

why

I

simplicity,

this

The constituent

sequence

by their

separate

and they

occur

of the selfsame

I

to

z

in sequence,

the separate

sequenced

iterative

is itself

evidence

given

distinctness

lies

in the assumption

governed

b

which the language

the sound patterns possible

as a simultaneously

that

The explanation

is

should be the case. substitutions

are

learner-the

child-formulates

of the language

he is learning.

to formulate applied

rule,

any sequence the rule

the

predetermined the

reason

is almost

of these

should naturally

But

as is shown

speech as it matures fact

that

the change of

Indeed

the fact

along

simultaneous

formulation

processes,

limitations

z

is incorrect.

can be explained,

the generalized

are

making voicedd into

to [z].

the simultaneous

by distinct they

Jand

processes

rule

and distinct,

from a child's

it

above from Joan

formulation

as is shown by the

I, whereas that

cited

are separate

a change of

Besides

simultaneously

simultaneous

best

of processes

as a single z

disappearance

rrandomly-ordered,

been proposed.

J,

substitutions

entails

formulations

be formulated

they are

substitutions.

of substitutions

continuants

to alter,

representations-

simultaneous

The sequence

speech

should be such that

from sequential

that

nonlinear,

the

substitutions

true

in Chapter

I think

is in principle

always

proposed

one may wonder why this

it

application.

may have to include

the problem:

of languages

application

that

Since

describes

of the sequential

so straightforward

for

merely

explanation

has not previously

to account

isn't

that

To my knowledge

rules

rules

rule

which is commonly cited

as resulting

Velten's

. 26 process

reason

sequential

applicable

other

observation

described

oral

aPP1Y not only to that

but also

application,

of all

sound patterns

to any repre-

exists

representation,

of processes,

conditions

more complex.

of the nasaliza-

in underlying

arises

in which

is pronounceable;

from the iteration

a sonorant

is the sequence

stands

simultaneously

application,

i r~

each representation

of an asterisk.

from its

containing

this

remain

straightforwardly

Lion process,

the

of explaining

N N

ba"r.o. wi

no obligatory

result

N

incapable

I

ba"ri oth

indicated

N

^bar.a.w

I

As in the divinity

be sure, NN

bar.o.wir~

~

~ r~

is inherently

rule

is wrong

with distinct

of the innate

the lines cannot, And

functions

speech

capacity,

aPP1Y in a random iterative

sequence

self-evident.

In sequential

applications

of

A creates

input

hypothesis

is called

a feeding

for

another order

such that

process

the output

B A is said

IiiParskY 1968 .

of one process

to 'feed'

The opposite

B and AB order,

BA

66 however,

is the only case

since

as the derivation

order'

is an iterative

order,

no order

processes which

of divinity sequential

The derivation

of the sort

to A's output.

Therefore

sequential

constraint

shows , so-called

given

It

A introduces the ordering

which prevents

that

applicable

grammatical

does not matter

B is allowed

constraint

or,

B from applying

to apply

better,

aanti-

to A's output

For example, midwest

the vowel

sequences meant

r

,

em of

s r i• n

esses

generally

But the

undergo the other

, r e d nr of

further

raising

:-

applies i

mean

by rule,

or

rules,

sri?eti

to certain

e.g.

mint

change i s It ------i

of

for

s

with the

as evidenced

b"ir ~

constrained

i s not n

difficult -L19'4--

> not

to to

__1...

or aPP1Y establish .

to

shortened

that

various

through

other

output

howaver .-1_.. rl~nlnnfiaefinn

9',

,

do

not

words, of

these

that

the

are

bed

altheagh

fact

learned

Such cases

'slurred

alects

and over':

u

etc.,

[days]

trous(ers),

voiced

stops

e.g. e.g.

bud

spoon , b2n

maz

tomorrow , m

she de voiced gto ttalized high-chair.

?ai~

hei ss

[jai

lie

devo iced

obstruents-

final

shoes -except

as did

z

bottle,

derived buz

vowels ,

final ?as

evidence

voiced

from

Napoleon.

, had been pronounced

But at first

clear

when

remained

b

ba P ;

Similarly

Zee

ezns

she had applied

LeoPold 1947:84-5 , and 1939,

are particularly

, cited constraints

the derivative

initial

a jt a

lamb

pr onounced

from nasals

baz

in this

antisequential

z us

derived

peakers.

The examples

Jbut

you beside

Even generalized

s

constrain

own speech .

who deleted s

constraints

from other

often

For example , Joan Velten

Leopold

in sequence:

bett2n

of these di

antisequential

to their

LeoPold

typical.

at first

[h]:

being

that children

word with de nasalized

apparently

speakers

impede their

which are peculiar

position,

Her first

child

that

from the

liquids

deleted

In the

proc-

in final

b£?n

in words whose semantic

are not necessarily

were derivative:

bEriqbett2n Nr en

they

in children. bead

for

Zett2n'' . be noted

I,

b ~n

speech adult

and Alex androv of children

in Chapter

but

bet him

does not

J , and Hildegand

Hildegand

they

r~" nr

as

when they arise

processes,

6rrn ~

mint

of the tongue.

[Or],Nnr

consonant-deletion to

fact

by slips

N/Y be i q

become

7eti

should

Sully

these

for

r

I:n

is evident

occur

segments, , e.g. ~ se

Thus when words like

redden

various

process

processes.

This process

which arise

processes.

threaten,

a

nasal

does not aPP1Y to the same sequences

other

application

of the southern

Lbefore

This is in accordance

aPP1Y after

process

to

tin.

m"in

serene

from various 8 re ? n

ten

from

met with in language.

common to many speakers

Plus nasal

shortened

is occasionally

is raised

t rn a

from

the

such a constraint

,

way processes can

brim

in casual

character

acquired,

This

I

in the dialect

h m hem

are

for

use such pronunciations

Ian It

be viewed a s unnatural. However,

r

le?n,

AB is

of eliminating

{brim]

Furthermore

occasionally

first.

B's function

etc.

in random

when all

have applied.

one may hear

'feeding

of processes

as A and B applies

It only matters

representations

is justified,

terminates

ones

of processes

to BAB.

fudge

'order'

application

or minus optional

of such a pair

equivalent

in which the term

at all.

Plus

bl

and these

glossary).

for the process

theory

of

phonology. The relaxation

of phonetic

change,

of antisequential discovered

constraints

by KiparskY

1965

is a major source 1968)

.

I have sug-

,

,

68 gested

that

impose

constraints

1969.

such

It

changes found

should

be

context-conditioned only

in

heard of

speech in

of of

comparison

n

(e.g.

f"i

and nasalize they

-'- k~enni

style.

27 There

are

however,

such

speech.

Individual

and as

after

n

-'- ka~ci

of course

quite

identical

whichever

applies

some or all

to which

the other

characterized Kisseberth

tendency

B, A is said

1970

there

might aPP1Y.

by KiParskY

may be natural. whether

argue

to 'bleed'

1968 that

is any Preferred

and it

ordering.

the

degree

does.

fact

these

flap

words

so that

ka~ndi

of ~individual .

between involves

fact

is

provided

striking as

the

in

Chapter

the

the

the

require

that

languages

1971

are

has

in these

two processes

vowel

they

of

in such

than

phonetic

emphasized

irregularities

organization

their

various

the in mor-

are

Similarly,

in

high

vowels

voiced),

of

and

but

it

is

and

between

make the

all

vowels

round were

thus

vowels

in

Sanskrit

e.

nonhigh

with and

labial o•

• and

vowels and

were

palatal

so forth.

nonlabial glides

sequential

would

It

is

this

ordering

many other

syllable principle

from are

vowels

which

be pointless.

nonPalatal

umlauted

the

dif-

distinct

between

and nonPalatal

within

as

respective

some obstruents

were

such

discussed

maximally

ordering

palatalized

changes,

in Fox and

transition

vowels

particularly

processes

their

that

which

processes

minimizing

The opposite

Germanic

context-free

Otherwise,

Thus

and thus

round

nasalization

voiceless

difficult).

early

and vowel

given.

be realized.

voiced less

as

are

opposite

of context-conditioned

distinctiveness

obstruents

is

introduce

functions

functions

of processes

teleologies

which

denasalization

be ordered

not

which

front

natural of

sYntogmatic

voiced

nation

both

as one

order

of view I am doubtful

processes

for

as long

by other

may introduce

The paradigmatic

all

is generally

process

(1968,

of processes

functions--maximizing

superficially

and

study

of

I.

against

the

case

example

potential

of another

into

by in

A eliminates

but Kenstowicz

matter

or natural

may be motivated

KiParskY

should this,

a preferred

relationships

ficulties-would

so that

accomplishes

indeed it

it

s . P28 phologicalgmaradi

sonorants

to see why, if

is

In

configuration

process

I suspect

that

of the configurations

point

there

The insight

ha~nn hand).

order

If

which

in

or Finnish

Bleeding

phonetic

purposes

considerations.

I have found no consistent

regarding

a certain

relationships,

often

speakers

of the context

Phonological

substitutions is difficult

B.

them

detailed

configurations

as unnatural,

bleeding

any

One of these

Where Process

From a strictly

in children's

relationships,

eliminates

of

even

relationships

which aPP1Y to partially

to process

I have discussed.

phonetic

in

largely

processes

first

in

sequence,

than

StamPe

are

marked

(e.g.

potential

eliminate

manifest

they

in Italian

is a matter

many other

for

midwestern

speech

be

variation

processes

input

sort

in casual

case

to

apparent

in unconstrained

kaeni

the

nn

the

apt

is

All

degeminate

in

to

children

learning

adults,

phrases becomes

are

are

casual words

of

that

changes

pronunciations.

-

they

and

aPP1Y these

can

failure

children

funny), d

language

out,

dialects,

casual

the

older

various

similar of

Whether

of

in

the

pointed

fluent

reduction

speakers

in

processes

the

only

originate

69

but •, in

before

many

become

velar all languages nasals areanterior, butbefo ve

but

combi-

in

they that

became is

I

r

71

70 responsible

for

'allophones'

,

There of

the

reason

asking answers

riddled

with

better-formulated

speculation

.

that in

to

whereby

systems.

understand

earliest

to

no

What

of

believe

I have

nature

why

such

to

such

error.

can

we know

to be

a basic

questions,

In

exist

if

fact of

in

question they they

are here

explained

organization

systems

But

show

lead cannot

the

or

all

processes

processes. and

and

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Hildegard's

"whispered"

pronunciation

of ,pretty

was not exceptional after all. It may simply have been the regular reflex of an early process devoicing high vowels in syllables with voiceless consonant rather as in Portuguese, Japanese, etc. When she later learned to voice the vowels, the consonants would have assimilated to them in voicing, regularly, and if the r LeoPold transcribed in the whispered pronunciation was, as I suspect, a natural misperception on his part of the stop release it would have seemed to disappear in the voiced pronunciation. This example has received much attention perhaps undeserved in recent literature. 2

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Page 16 This is incomplete. Since t might become c via either d or 8 the entailment is rather that either d or 8 or both would also become . D0ne8an (1978) has discussed this sateSorial property of. Fhonological derivations in more detail and with far richer illustrations. 3P

TrubetzkoY, N. S. 1969. Berkeley: University

Principles o of California

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Tr. C. Baltaxe.

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Twaddel 1, W. F. 1934. On defining the phoneme. Language M nographs. Reprinted in Martin Joosed., Re a1ings in Linguistics, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1957, 55-79. Twaddell, W. F. 1938. A note on Old High German umlaut Monateheto fur deutsehen Unterricht 30.177-81. Reprinted in Martin Joos, ad., Readings in Linguistics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957, 85-7. Velten

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to the

1905. Press.

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Dialect

Grammar.

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Oxford

formulation

anasal

Usually, opposite changes reflect distinct Processes with distinct teleolo8ies. As such, the application of one in a language never entails the application of the other. There are languages with context-free denasalization but no contextual nasalization (Japanese, in some descriptions) , and languages with contextual nasalization but no context free denasalization Hindi Changes due to a single process, on the other hand are normally in a relation of unilateral entailment. As noted on page 8, if i is deAalatalized to I.e if it occurs will also be dePalatalized to n under like circumstances. See Done an 1918 for numerous illustrations. 4

Wr ight, Joseph. University

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Page 19 Thus languages which aAP1Y vowel denasalization lack nasal vowel phonemes, and also nasal vowel allophones (as in Japanese, in some descriptions) unless as in English) assimilative vowel nasalization also applies. On the other hand, languages which suppress vowel denasalization have nasal vowel phonemes; such languages may also suppress assimilative vowel nasalization as French does, compare bon bonne , or they may aPP1Y it as Hindi does and have some nonnasal as well as nasal vowel phonemes realized as nasal vowel allophones. For every Pair of contrary processes of this sort there are just four possible Phonological typologies (assuming that if the context-free process applies it must aPP1Y before the contextsensitive process.) 75

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page 19) Indeed it can be doubted whether nonadJ' acent ever play a role in p honoloical bfeatures b pro cesses. Since it is y now well established that nondistinctive features often condition changes in distinctive features the way is op en to interpret ~ actions at a distance as involving auditoralY unobtrusive overlaPPings off harmonized vowel features on intervening consonants h , and likewise of armonized consonant features (e .gretroflexion in Sanskrit) on intervening vowels. This would explain why actions at a distance entail the corresponding actions in adjacent segments , as e. Old Hi gh German palatal umlaut as in manna > menu(i) 'men' entailed stain > stein 'stone'; we would posit an 1-colored in manna . This is a recurrent hypothesis in historical phonology , it has g be en given up too readily in the face of surprising examples . I see no reason why even consonant harmonies like Pibi t .v. or Qa9i ] do ie in child speech could not be explained in this way; it is the timbre not the stoPPedness , of the consonants which would be posited on the intervening vowels, and I see no aAriori reason why the adjustments of lip and tongue musculature accompanying obstruents might not co-occur, uunobtrusively to the ear , with the rather different adjustments accompanying vowels . 6 Page 21) A simpler hypothesis regarding hub home beside ham ham would be that Joan pronounced hu . as ~u as e. g. in J apanese since ~] would not be nasalized and would therefore cause progressive denasalization. Ve1ten' s phonemic analysis does not give ' phonetic detail , and the notes on which it was based seem n o longer to exist.

case ee

they differ phonetically (which is dubious in the or ee or occur in distinct prosodic constituents

case

..

geminate

consonants

on either

side of a syllable

of e.g.

division}.

Donegan 1978 shows clearly that monoPhthongization is not a separate process but simply the end product of the mutual assimilation of the features of a diphthong. This is in accordance with the natural segmentation hypothesis sketched in note 7. 10

Page 25) The aPPlicational Precedence of context-free processes before contrary context-sensitive processes seems to be a special case of a much more general constraint Donegan and I 1979 have presented as "Fortition first lenition last". 11 { Page 25 Some further discussion and evidence has now been published in section 4 of Donegan and StamPe 1919. 12 P age 26) The re-analysis of the place of denasalization in Joan's speech proposed above in note 7 is consistent with an absolute interpretation of this constraint. Done8an and I 1919: section 3) have argued for such an interpretation, extended from pairs of contrary Processes to all paradigmatic and sYntagmatic processes °'Fortitions first lenitions last") . For example, a fortition like the vowel aPenthesis in boated batted could not succeed a lenition like the voice assimilation in knst kissed and thus * bntat could not be derived (through these processes) . This constraint is extremely restrictive, barring analyses of a wide variety, including

1

Pa ge 21 The application of context-free vowel nasalization as 6 after context-sensitive nasahzation 1 is a counterexample to the precedence constraint proposed between these types of processes on page 23f. I suspect that Joan's actual pronunciations were as in 5 rather than as in 6 • v.elten would simply have ignored vowel nasalzzation where it was obviously contextually conditioned as in 5 Joan did denasalize vowels , as in na_ for French non (specifically remarked) and a is for nets ants , but there is no reason this could not have b een prior to vowel nasalization at 1 This eliminates the counterexample. Page 22 Left out of this account are processes of PaZatalization the opposite of DePalatalization , Tensing, and its opposite, Laxing. Diphthongiza tion can be eliminated being simply an application of one of the other processes to half of a vowel . The vowel research of Donegan (formerly Miller is brought together in Donegan 1978. The asegmen tai hypothesis of Donegan and StamPa 1918 and StamPe 1979, according to which processes have only prosodic domains e .g. syllables, or syllable constituents; measures or measure constituents etc. , and never segmental ones carries with it a natural segmentation hypothesis that adjacent phonetic segments are distinct only in

? those KiParskY sought to elim in

paper of 1968, and explaining why alternations of the divine divinity type where historically, the sYntagmatic shortening of the stressed vowel in triplet words preceded the paradigmatic vowel shift and diPhthongization cannot, despite ChomskY and Halle 1968,be part of the synchronic natural phonology of a language. For further discussion see the notes on 'bleeding order' under Chapter II. 13

Page 21 The characterization of the difference between phonemes and allophones in structural phonology in terms of criteria like 'contrast' 'comPlementa ~' distribution' , 'phonetic similarity', and so forth has been effectively criticized by ChomskY 1964, Postal 1968, and earlier by Bazell 1954. No such criteria figure in the present characterization. In natural phonology, a sound is a phoneme if and only if not all its occurrences can be derived naturally i.e. through natural interactions of active natural processes of the language) from other sounds. Thus a language learner will take the nasal vowel of a form mi to derive from a nonnasal vowel by Progressive nasalization from /m/, or regressive nasalization from a deleted following nasal rather than learn to produce the vowel deliberate)Y , as nasal. But if the language presents him with forms like [pa], which entails the suppression of progressive nasalization; or en which entails the suppression of regressive nasalization; o r even en which entails the suppression of a process deleting a

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final nasal--so that there remains no natural derivation of the vowel of [ml] from any source but /1/, then the learner can only Perceive this vowel as deliberately (phonemically) nasal and must learn to pronounce it as such. This criterion of natural derivability obviates reference not only to the structuralist criteria but also to the increasingly ad hoc and complex criteria of generative phonology ZwickY 1972 lists ~ about thirty of these). It furnishes an irreducible account of the acquisition of phonology, in which often a single form will suffice to show the child that a certain sound is phonemic in the language he is learning, • compare the zeka example on page aye 29 (However, if it makes matters simple for the child it does not do so for the linguist, since to aPP1Y the criterion of natural derivability requires the linguist to understand fully the processes and derivations in question. At the same time the criterion seems to me to capture the sort of phonemic representation that the structuralists aimed at but which their criteria failed to characterize adequately. It allows for example, for desirable non-linear mappings like kit with ikmnt can't non-invariant mappings like the flap of 8rithree with In / and the flap . of Eci rEdd.~. with Id!, and so forth (compare ChomskY 1964 . And it quite naturally rules outmaPPingswhichthe structuralists could rule out only with vague or ad hoc criteria like the identification o f the complementary h and ~ of English) since there is no natural process which makes initial /n! into h or final /h into rI (compare Bazell 1954). 14

P age 28)

See footnote

14 of the preceding

paper.

15P

age 31 I am assuming that, in the absence of auxiliary hypotheses, obstruents represented as unspecified as to voicing would surface, once the process that previously governed their surface voice specification was suppressed, as randomly voiced or voiceless. This assumption seems to surprise adherents of the archisegmental theory, I suspect because they did not consider it to have any empirical consequences. 16 Page 32 This example may be a bad one because it is difficult to show that all qs are naturally derivable from /n! Plus velar in current English, in the face of examples like singer versus linger, ._ and because tests designed to get at the psychological ~ situation give conflicting results in this case. But it is a clear example, and the facts clearly held true in earlier English, and they are commonplace in many languages. Or one can substitute the dental of plinth for throughout the discussion. Some writers on natural phonology have presented it as having all neutralizing processes aPP1Y prior to all non-neutralizing Processes. But the reverse situation is quite commonplace. For example, the nonneutralizing devoicing .~ of final vowels in Yana women's speech fed a neutralization of preceding voiced stops with voiceless ones SaPit

1929)•

the

optional,

non-neutralizing

monoPhthong'zation ~.

of Kabardian

/9w/to o feeds an obligatory neutralization of preceding nonlabialized stops with labialized ones KuiP ers 1960); ~ and in English non-neutralizing vowel deletion as in poatsrl panting feeds nonneutralizing neutralizing flapping Paecl' and in turn a neutralizing progressive ~ nasalization so that panting = .pBf' ~ = Pannign . Examples like this show that the phonemic representation of an utterance does not necessarily occur in its derivation from its lexical representation. Thus in /Pant iq/ ' /PatT / -' pHei i .poari , the phonemic representation of panting which like that of panning, would be !aen i / ) does not occur. But it may be noted that panting and annin have identical "rhyme fields" (planning , scanning, chanting, etc.), are often spelled alike by children who are unfamiliar with the morphophonemic conventions of English spelling, etc. , and in fact would be represented alike in the memory of any speaker who did not happen to know from ant, ants etc.) that panting has a t in it". It may be helpful to think of phonemic representation not as a level but as the most "concrete" (superficial) representation of a form which is accessible to the phonetically unsophisticated speaker's awareness. This of course follows SaPir's characterization of the phoneme as a PercePt,) Then it must follow that allophones can find no place in lexical representation: what is not perceived cannot be recorded in memory. 17 Page 35) As this shows, the line of argument that Ha11e followed with his Russian example above demonstrating that the phonemic level does not correspond to a natural break in a linearordered set of "rules" applies equally to the morphophonemic level. What is refuted is not the phoneme, but Halle's conception of the structure of a phonology. 18

Page 37 HooPer 1975 has attempted to refute this argument by citing the tradition in some Celtic languages of writing sP etc. with sb etc. and noting that Gaelic beach 'bee' is augmented to sbeach 'wasp'. I.do not understand the difference between English and most other languages and Celtic in this respect but the fact remains that in all languages there is a specific identification of the stop afters with a particular value of the (neutralized) feature. Whether every language makes the same identification is not at issue. 19 20

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Donegan 1978).

Page 42 It should be pointed out that Joseph Greenberg, in his outstanding work on universals of language, has increasingly turned to processes to explain synchronic systems, and likewise Alan Bell Larry HYman, and others in Greenberg's tradition. But Greenberg's exclusively diachronic conception of processes seems to ignore the existence of the teleologies underlying change in the synchronic system of a language. It is typical in language change that, before the old gives ~ way to the new, they co-exist as regional,

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social, or stylistic variants. In variants of a single sPBaker , such as those cited in Chapter II for the phrase divinity fudge _~ , we find a continuum ranged from the "clearest" to the "most pronoun ceable" forms. This is typical of variants over synt agmatic processes; variants over paradigmatic processes, such as the following forms of head observed by Donegan and me in the speech of natives of the Great Smoky Mountains are ranged in the opposite order: hed -i head head head -• he aad [haled] . Here the „ later forms are the "clearest limited in most older speakers just to emphatic speech, though children often use the least conservative forms and this is true both of .paradigmatic and sYntagmatcc derivatives ) in their everyday speech. 21 ( page 47. Further differences between rules and processes may be illustrated by the rule adjusting the pronunciation of the latina to prefix inim- It:-, etc) versus the process assimilating alveolar stops including nasals to the point of articulation of a following stop. I The rule is limited to a specific morpheme. The process applies regardless of morphological identities . 2) The rule is obligatory (*polite , * ~.nrelevant ,the process i s obligatory only wit hen a stress-measure *'un *u' n cle and n wider domain s is optional and deP endentt on style careful i nl ut versus casual i m ut . 3 The rule applies before any Processes and before the point in speech processing when tongue-slips occur. The process applies afterward. Cf.. Page 65. 4) The rule refers only to phonemes, never to allophones . It does not change _in- before velars (incompetent) as it does before labials (impossible) because ~ is or was in Latin an allophone while m/ is (and was in Latin a Phoneme . The In in incompetent optionally becomes q but it is the process that brings this about ,

as it optionally changes n to rm in in Paris. The process to features, and operates on completely novel combinations of e.g. in borrowed words or phonetic exercises like at' obala aaIa ) as well as native phonemes. 5) The rule is insensitive to prosodic structure e.8to stress placement im ~.ous, im ious}. The process operates on prosodic rather than segmental domains, as in ka~nt ,9o kaa k.9o (*ka~nk.9o) can't o •iDd.rnt .9o u9. k.9o f Od.nk9 . o ud) k9. o) should n g o,, where strings of alveo a r stops within a stress-measure are assimilated entirely or not at all, as if the strings constituted a single long alveolar stop segment. See Done8an and Stampe 1978. 6) Historically, the rule was borrowed with the morphemes it applies to, and did not extend to new morphemes. The process, a native constraint, affects all borrowed morphemes. 7 Systematic phonemic representations Chomsky 1964), i.e. representations whose derivations require the agency of rules as well as processes, fail every test I know that might establish their psychological reality. This is in striking contrast to phonemic and morphophonemic rep resentations whose derivations require only processes. For example, two words rhyme if they match in phonemic representation

from their stressed syllabics to the end of the word e .g. lens . bends readin : meeting, mix: sixths if pronounced /s~ks/ step _ ), etc. -Morphophonemic identity is not leapt if pronounced / I eP sufficient without phonemic identity: banned ,hand rhyme only if the latter is not pronounced /hmn etc . But morphophonemic identity is preferred: rhymes like readin :needin are referred over reading meeting, and are more frequent. Systematic phonemic identity , however, is totally irrelevant: rhymes like line , • signn (cf. signal) , revision : division (cf. revise divide), cram damn cf. damnation) are not perceived as differing from those with matched systematic phonemic representations. This suggests strongly that rules do not operate on representations in the way that processes do and casts doubt on the appropriateness of a Process model" for rules. The rhyme test from my unpublished paper on the phoneme, 'Yes Virginia ...' 1968 ,also shows that phonetic identity is immaterial. Words with phonemically Identical rhymes rhyme perfectly even if they are pronounced differently , e.g.. if mat and cat are pronounced may and kae' . But words without phonemically identical rhymes do not rhyme even if they are pronounced exactly alike, e. g. if mat and pad are both pronounced as aec] in the verse. Upon a mat Upon a Pad A Yellow cat Serenely sat.

This would follow, of course if allophonic properties of sounds not perceived.) For further discussion of the rule/process distinction see Donegan and Stampe 1979 sections 2, 4).

are

22

exactly refers these akp

,

P'age 55 The unordered sequential iterative hypothesis of process application presented in this dissertation is basically identical to the one I proposed, on weaker evidence, in notes 1 12, and 14 of the precedingpaper. If Anderson's dissertation of the same year is intended to allow iterative ABA application, which is not clear to me then his hypothesis of 'local ordering' was identical to mine except in its preference for counterbleeding over bleeding order after KiParskY 1968. For a review of some of the subsequent developments in ordering ~' theory, together with a revised hypothesis of ordering in natural phonology, see Donegan ~ and Stampe 1979 section 3). 23

Aage 57 For what I hope understanding of the syllable, see and I have stuck by the notation boundaries .) rather than, as has them as trees because we know of cannot universally be deduced from of the constituent segments.

represents some progress in m Y Donegan and Stampe 1978. Donegan of syllables simply by marking their become fashionable, representing no evidence that their structure the relative order and sonority

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One idea in the present work that still seems to me worth pursuing is the conception of syllable-division, re-syllabication, and desyllabication as a single integrated process.

derivative representations (excepting, as noted rule-derived ones), or they apply to all of them. Numerous additional examples are given in Donegan and StamPe 1979: section 3. Further consequences of the simultaneous iterative interpretation are presented in note 28 after the discussion of feeding and counterfeeding application.

24

page 57 It is the prosodic domain of flapping that accounts for the main differences between speakers. Those who flap in the offset of syllables flapa only the first t of entity (ent.i.ty): those who flap in the offset of stress-measures a group of syllables beginning ~ with a stressed syllable and ending before another stressed syllable) flap both _t's: and so on up to t hose who flap apical stops at least if they are voiced) even in the onset off stressed syllables as in the doctor, or today.

28

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25

pa a 60) The relative independence of laryngeal, nasal position and color features has not been given sufficient attention. But although I do not think this explanation of the "counterbleeding" relation of vowel nasalization and (nasal) flap deletion is wrong,~ another more general explanation follows from the proposal that processes apply simultaneously Donegan and StamPe 1979: see note 27 below). In this case da.v'r.a~ ti would change in one step to de.vl.e.ti so that deletion could not bleed nasalization. 26

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Page 64 On an asegmental or prosodic view of Phonological processing Donegan h and StamPa 1978, StamPe 1979), a process nasalizing sonorants--insofar as it does not distinguish among kinds of sonorants--would read the long string of sonorants in borrowing as a single sonorant and would nasalize the whole string in one step. The length of the string nasalized would depend on the length of the string input and the rosodic domain of the nasalization process. Of the pronunciations cited, the first admissible one in each column corresponds to a syllable, and the last to a stress-measure. The intermediate pronunciations correspond to two syllables, or all the posttonic syllables, or some such domain which I doubt is a natural constituent of the prosodic structure of this word. I suspect that mY previous inability to rule out the intermediate pronunciation led me to consider it admissible it seems obvious in either event that my judgment is not to be trusted here. Compare also note 21 part 5.) 27 Page 68 The entire discussion of sequential application of processes here is subject to a quite different interpretation. Feeding would result not only from sequential iterative application, but also from simultaneous iterative application, where all processes apply at once, and then all re-apply, and so forth. On this view, a counterfeeding constraint would he not a constraint on the ordering of a pair of rocesses that one process may not follow the other), but as a no-iteration constraint that one may not reapply) . This has the interesting consequence that no process could be both fed and counterfed. Note that this is precisely the situation= hitherto unexplained, described in the text with regard to the process raising E before nasals P. 66f and the process devoicing final obstruents in Joan Velten`s speech P. 67 : these processes either aPP1Y to no

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Page 69 Since this was written most of the diachronic examples that seemed to involve a change from bleeding to counterbleeding application have been discredited (by Koutsoudas et al., Vennemannt and others). The inescapable conclusion seems to be that bleeding and counterbleeding application are not language-specific options. But the theory I Presented in the text provides no way of predicting when one or the other will occur, and the available hypotheses seem in one way wa or another incompatible with natural phonology. For example, 's "opacity" Yhypothesis 1971 KiParsk Y Presupposes that all h processes are learned. The simultaneous iterative hypothesis presented in note 27 Predicts that, in the absence of universal priority constraints, no process could bleed another. As pointed out in note 25, this is often the desired prediction. But Kisseherth and Kenstowicz's numerous examples of bleeding order require some restrictions of priority. We have in natural phonology two universal priority constraints which are well-evidenced: rules before processes, and fortitions before lenidons note 12 Applied to the simultaneous hypothesis, the latter constraint predicts that a fortition will bleed any lenition it can see the example of batted in note 12) . This most frequently occurs when the forte~.'t'on separates an assimilating and an assimilated seg"bleedinQ the context" of the assimilation , as Kisseberth thus"bleeding thement, context" of theassimilation as Kisseb and Kenstowicz put it P. 68 above).

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