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Query:	Feeding and Counterfeeding
Author:	Darya Kavitskaya
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Phonology
Summary:	We only received a few answers, but all the responses we got were meaningful and indicative of where the field is. We are grateful to Mike Maxwell and Eric Bakovic for the general discussion of the topic, to Nina Topintzi for suggesting that these patterns may occur in Northern Greek dialects, and to Paul Kiparsky for reminding us that one of the well-established examples of the interaction like this appears to be Lardil. In Lardil, nouns in the nominative case that are longer than two moras undergo apocope of the final vowel. Also, non-apical consonants are deleted word-finally. Deletion of consonants is fed by apocope. However, apocope does not apply to the vowel that is made final by consonant deletion (deletion counterfeeds apocope). A more general conclusion can be drawn from the discussion we had. The terms ''counterfeed'' and ''counterbleed'' are confusing, especially when used as verbs, not as gerunds (an informative illustration of this confusion would be a couple of posts on the phonoloblog: http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2005/03/21/counterpunch/ http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2005/03/27/counterpunch-2/ ). Darya Kavitskaya and Peter Staroverov

LL Issue:	20.194
Date Posted:	21-Jan-2009
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