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Positional Faithfulness, Non-locality, and the Harmonic Serialism Solution
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Jesney, Karen (2011). Positional Faithfulness, Non-locality, and the Harmonic Serialism Solution. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, NELS 39 Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3PN93H7

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TitlePositional Faithfulness, Non-locality, and the Harmonic Serialism Solution
PublisherGLSA, University of Massachusetts
NameJesney, Karen (Author)
Date Created2011
SubjectPhonology, Formal Analysis, Position faithfulness, Harmonic serialism, Locality, Opacity (Linguistics)
Extent12 p.
DescriptionPathologies arise in parallel OT when a positional faithfulness constraint and a conflicting markedness constraint dominate the constraints responsible for determining which segments, if any, occupy the privileged position. Under such rankings, an underlying featural contrast can be displaced onto the output prosodic structure. (The possibility of such effects was first noted in Beckman 1998:37fn.) Here I show that the problem is general one in parallel OT, and that the resulting pathological patterns are opaque and can be highly non-local. The solution in Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2006, 2007, 2008) comes not from altering the ranking, but from reinterpreting the basis upon which privilege is established. Rather than being based on the prosodification in the output candidate, privilege is argued here to stem from the prosodic structure associated with the input to the current step in the derivation. This approach allows the desired effects of positional faithfulness to be seen, without also predicting opaque and non-local patterns that fall outside the range of what is attested in human language.
NoteThe definitive version of this paper was published in NELS 39: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (2011) and is available at http://www.createspace.com/3756873
GenreConference Paper or Lecture, Accepted Manuscript (AM)
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3PN93H7
LanguageEnglish
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
   Type: Citation
   Date: 2011
   Name: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society
   Reference: https://www.createspace.com/3756873
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
   Type: Grant award
   Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
   Originator: Karen Jesney
   Name: 752-2005-1708
Additional Detail(s)
Type: Grant number
Name: 752-2005-1708
Detail: Doctoral Fellowship
CollectionRutgers Optimality Archive
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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