English stress preservation and Stratal Optimality Theory
Since Chomsky & Halle (1968), English stress preservation â oriÌginal -> oriÌginaÌlity, oÌbvious -> oÌbviousness â has been important in generative discussions of morphophonological interaction. This thesis carries out empirical investigations into English stress preservation, and uses their results to argue for a particular version of Optimality Theory: Stratal Optimality Theory (âStratal OTâ) (Kiparsky, 1998a, 2000, 2003a; BermuÌdez-Otero, 1999, 2003, in preparation). In particular, the version of Stratal OT proposed in BermuÌdez-Otero (in preparation) and BermuÌdez-Otero and McMahon (2006) is supported. The empirical investigations focus upon the type of preservation where preserved stress is subordinated in the preserving word (âweak preservationâ): e.g. oriÌginal -> oriÌginaÌlity; aÌntiÌcipate -> antiÌcipaÌtion. Evidence for the existence of weak preservation is presented. However, it is also shown that weak preservation is not consistently successful, but that it is, rather, probabilistically dependent upon word frequency. This result is expected in light of work like Hay (2003), where it is proposed that word frequency affects the strength of relationships between words: stress
Collie, Sarah
Linguistics ; English Language ; English stress preservation
English stress preservation and Stratal Optimality Theory. Since Chomsky & Halle (1968), English stress preservation â oriÌginal -> oriÌginaÌlity, oÌbvious -> oÌbviousness â has been important in generative discussions of morphophonological interaction. This thesis carries out empirical investigations into English stress preservation, and uses their results to argue for a particular version of Optimality Theory: Stratal Optimality Theory (âStratal OTâ) (Kiparsky, 1998a, 2000, 2003a; BermuÌdez-Otero, 1999, 2003, in preparation). In particular, the version of Stratal OT proposed in BermuÌdez-Otero (in preparation) and BermuÌdez-Otero and McMahon (2006) is supported. The empirical investigations focus upon the type of preservation where preserved stress is subordinated in the preserving word (âweak preservationâ): e.g. oriÌginal -> oriÌginaÌlity; aÌntiÌcipate -> antiÌcipaÌtion. Evidence for the existence of weak preservation is presented. However, it is also shown that weak preservation is not consistently successful, but that it is, rather, probabilistically dependent upon word frequency. This result is expected in light of work like Hay (2003), where it is proposed that word frequency affects the strength of relationships between words: stress
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