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Wed Feb 11 2004

Books: Phonology: Gouskova

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    Message 1: Deriving Economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory: Gouskova

     Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:58:20 -0500 (EST)
    From: glsa <glsalinguist.umass.edu>
    Subject: Deriving Economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory: Gouskova


    Title: Deriving Economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm Book URL: http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm

    Author: Maria Gouskova, Rutgers University

    CD: Price: 12 US$ Hardback: Price: 18 US$

    Abstract: The Graduate Linguistics Student Association (GLSA) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, announces the publication of a new dissertation:

    The dissertation argues that markedness is lenient and relative: a form is marked only if there is another form that is unmarked. No constraints ban structure for the sake of banning structure; there are formal limits on the content of CON. The central consequence of this view is that economy constraints are excluded on principle; economy effects must instead follow from the interaction of independently motivated constraints.

    While a range of economy effects is discussed, the empirical focus is on syncope. Case studies investigate syncope in Hopi, Tonkawa, Lillooet, Lushootseed, and Lebanese and Mekkan Arabic. Deleting vowels satisfies a range of markedness constraints; moreover, the same constraints that can be satisfied by syncope can also be satisfied by other processes that may not involve removal of structure. The standard "delete-where-you-can" view of syncope is argued to be inadequate; furthermore, economy constraints can actually be harmful if admitted into the grammar.

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