DescriptionBakovic (2005, et seq.) analyses patterns of sufficiently-similar segment avoidance as the interaction of undominated agreement and anti-gemination constraints, a pattern known as cross-derivational feeding (CDF). A study of historical English shows that the bleeding interactions between epenthesis and assimilation which prevent adjacent sufficiently-similar segments can be explained by grammar-external constraints on parsing sound change in progress. Evidence against both of the strong predictions of CDF are presented.
NoteThis is a pre-print of an article that appeared in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 2011: 36-50. It is part of the Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. The published version is available at http://hdl.handle.net/2142/25512.
NoteFruehwald, Josef and Kyle Gorman. Cross-derivational feeding is epiphenomenal. Studies in Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 36-50 (2011)
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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