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| Title: | Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters |
| Author: | Arto Anttila |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.stanford.edu/~anttila/ |
| Institution: | Stanford University |
| Author: | Vivienne Fong |
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| Institution: | Stanford University |
| Author: | Štefan Beňuš |
| Institution: | Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra |
| Author: | Jennifer R. Nycz |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.jennifernycz.com |
| Institution: | Georgetown University |
| Linguistic Field: | Morphology; Phonology |
| Abstract: | Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological processes that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative evidence shows that these patterns are genuine and systematic. Two main conclusions emerge. First, a small set of phonological constraints yields a typological structure (T-order) that captures the quantitative patterns, independently of specific assumptions about how the grammar represents variation. Second, the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that phonological opacity has only one source: the interleaving of phonology and morphology. |
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This article appears in Phonology Vol. 25, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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