Metaphony as Magnetism
Publication date
2018
Authors
van Oostendorp, Marc
D'Alessandro, Roberta
Editors
Grimaldi, Mirko
Lai, Rosangela
Franco, Ludovico
Baldi, Benedetta
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Abstract
Metaphony in Romance poses a well-known problem for Element Theory, as it seems to involve lowering. [D’Alessandro and van Oostendorp (2016)] propose to solve this by assuming some suffixes are ‘ |A| Eaters’, absorbing the |A| element from the stem vowel without getting phonetically realized themselves. This paper points to some problems with this analysis, and shows that Magnetic Grammar, a framework in which all linguistic variation is encoded in features, might help to solve them.
Keywords
phonology, Element Theory, Magnetic Grammar, primitives
Citation
van Oostendorp, M & D'Alessandro, R A G 2018, Metaphony as Magnetism. in M Grimaldi, R Lai, L Franco & B Baldi (eds), Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond : In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, vol. 152, John Benjamins, pp. 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.20oos