Long-distance compensatory lengthening
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Compensatory lengthening (henceforth, CL) is the phenomenon wherein one segment in a word is deleted or shortened, and another is lengthened to make up for it. Traditionally, the two segments involved have always been adjacent to one another, or in adjacent syllables and separated by only a single consonant. As such, previous accounts of CL have assumed (either tacitly or explicitly) that these were the only possibilities. In this thesis, I present evidence from Slovak and Estonian that the two sounds can in fact be separated by any distance. In Slovak, the deletion or shortening of one vowel can cause another vowel two syllables away to lengthen. In Estonian, the deletion of a vowel anywhere in the word can cause the first syllable to lengthen. The existence of such patterns warrants a new theoretical account of CL, which is exactly what this thesis will provide. I will argue that CL amounts to the movement of a mora from one segment to another, and that moras are required to move as little as possible in this way. This is enforced via the proposed constraint M(ULTI)T(IER)-LIN(EARITY), which is an expanded version of LIN that punishes the inversion of precedence relations between any two nodes in the prosodic hierarchy---including moras and segments. It is violated more the further a mora moves from its original position, and therefore assigns a greater number of violations to long-distance CL than local CL. If this constraint is highly-ranked, CL will be purely local. If it is dominated by other markedness constraints, CL can be forced into being long-distance if such is necessary in order to avoid violations of those markedness constraints.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Borgeson, Scott |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Kiparsky, Paul |
| Thesis advisor | Kiparsky, Paul |
| Thesis advisor | Anttila, Arto |
| Thesis advisor | Leben, William Ronald, 1943- |
| Thesis advisor | Ryan, Kevin |
| Degree committee member | Anttila, Arto |
| Degree committee member | Leben, William Ronald, 1943- |
| Degree committee member | Ryan, Kevin |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Linguistics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Scott Borgeson. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Linguistics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pd263hk3603 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Scott Borgeson
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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