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TitlePhonological agreement by headed feature correspondence
NameIacoponi, Luca (author); de Lacy, Paul (chair); Jardine, Adam (co-chair); Tesar, Bruce (internal member); Bennett, William (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2018
Other Date2018-10 (degree)
SubjectLinguistics, Phonological agreement, Correspondence theory
Extent1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionIn the dissertation, I propose a theory of phonological agreement called φ-Correspondence that is a formal extension of Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995). The theory is distinguished from Agreement By Correspondence (ABC, Rose & Walker 2004, Hansson 2001/2010, Bennett 2013/2015) in that it satisfies the following two assumptions.

Hypothesis I (correspondence relation): I/O-Correspondence and φ-Correspondence relations are the same kind of formal relations.

Hypothesis II (Constraints): I/O-Correspondence and φ-Correspondence constraints have the same definitions.

By analyzing three case studies in Chumash, Kalabari, and Basque, I show that φ-Correspondence solves several empirical and theoretical problems that have been recently pointed out in the literature on harmony, such as the problem of directionality (Bennett 2013/2015), Overlapping harmony (Walker 2016), and Agreement By Proxy (Hansson and McMullin 2016). Counterfeeding opacity is also correctly predicted to arise from the interaction between markedness and faithfulness constraints on heads (Falk 2014).

In the dissertation, I also formulate a generalization on the directionality of dominant-regressive consonant harmonies (Baković 2000, Hansson 2001/2010) and show that in φ-Correspondence it can be analyzed as an effect of the Preservation of the Marked (de Lacy 2002/2006).
Finally, the theory establishes a parallel between feature heads and prosodic heads by showing that they adhere to the same axioms, that they tend to be aligned to right morpho-phonological edges and that they are a target of positional faithfulness constraints.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Luca Iacoponi
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-en12-wx57
Languageeng
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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