Derivational meanders of High Vowel Palatalization in Polish

• Jerzy Rubach ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Iowa

     University of Iowa

     City of Iowa City, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 199, 2017, págs. 1-26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article investigates interactions that are triggered by PAL-i, a constraint that asks for consonants and high vowels to agree in backness. It is shown that PAL-i heads a conspiracy that involves several different processes, among them Palatalization, /Ci/ → [Cʲi], and Retraction, /Ci/ → [Cɨ] that both occur in Polish. I argue that the analysis calls for derivational levels, so Derivational Optimality Theory rather than Standard Optimality Theory is the correct framework. Levels, constituting miniphonologies with their own inputs, constraint ranking and inventories, are motivated by six arguments, each discussed in a separate section