The Syllable in Optimality Theory (review)

Language ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 943-944
Author(s):  
Curt. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Theory Review

Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory (review)

Language ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-812
Author(s):  
Andrew Nevins
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Segmental Phonology ◽  
Theory Review

The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory (review)

Language ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-411
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Theory Review

A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory (review)

Language ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 924-927
Author(s):  
Diana B. Archangeli
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Theory Review

Phonologically conditioned allomorphy in the morphology of Surmiran (Rumantsch)

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Morphological Properties ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Verbal System ◽  
Extended Sense ◽  
Phonological Rule

Alternations between allomorphs that are not directly related by phonological rule, but whose selection is governed by phonological properties of the environment, have attracted the sporadic attention of phonologists and morphologists. Such phenomena are commonly limited to rather small corners of a language's structure, however, and as a result have not been a major theoretical focus. This paper examines a set of alternations in Surmiran, a Swiss Rumantsch language, that have this character and that pervade the entire system of the language. It is shown that the alternations in question, best attested in the verbal system, are not conditioned by any coherent set of morphological properties (either straightforwardly or in the extended sense of ‘morphomes’ explored in other Romance languages by Maiden). These alternations are, however, straightforwardly aligned with the location of stress in words, and an analysis is proposed within the general framework of Optimality Theory to express this. The resulting system of phonologically conditioned allomorphy turns out to include the great majority of patterning which one might be tempted to treat as productive phonology, but which has been rendered opaque (and subsequently morphologized) as a result of the working of historical change.

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