Segmental Blocking in Dissimilation: An Argument for Co-Occurrence Constraints Article Swipe
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Juliet Stanton
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· 2017
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v4i0.3972
· OA: W2625166372
YOU?
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· 2017
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v4i0.3972
· OA: W2625166372
Most contemporary work assumes that dissimilation is motivated by featural co-occurrence constraints: a process that maps /X...X/ to [X...Y] (for example) is explained by positing a ban on co-occurring [X]s (e.g. Alderete 1997, Suzuki 1998; though cf. Bennett 2015). I show how this approach can be extended to analyze the typology of segmental blocking effects in long-distance consonant dissimilation, and provide evidence from lexical statistics in support of the analysis. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed analysis makes more accurately restrictive predictions than available alternatives.
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