On the evolution of prosodic boundaries: parameter settings for Polish and English

• Geoffrey Schwartz ^[1]
  1. [1] Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

     Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

     Poznań, Polonia

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 171, 2016, págs. 37-73
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Phonological descriptions often make reference to prosodic boundaries without exploring the origins of those boundaries. In the Onset Prominence representational framework, prosodic boundaries fall out from the same mechanisms that govern word-internal phonology. These mechanisms are parametric. Opposing settings for these parameters in Polish and English allow for a unified analysis of apparently diverse phonological phenomena including cluster phonotactics, the behavior of post-vocalic consonants, the realization of word-initial vowels, and the application or non-application of external sandhi.