Culminativity times harmony equals unbounded stress
Culminativity times harmony equals unbounded stress
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高潮乘和谐等于无限压力
DOI:
10.1017/cbo9781139600408.012
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2014
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通讯作者:
H. Hulst
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作者:
Jeffrey Heinz;H. Hulst
8.1 Introduction Well-studied computational representations of stress patterns are desirable in phonological analysis for several reasons.* Perhaps the most important one is that they reveal insights which are (i) relevant to any particular theory of phonology and (ii) otherwise difficult to divine. This is because these representations highlight the importance of what is being computed and are less concerned with how it is being computed. This chapter demonstrates one example of this by showing concretely how once culminativity is factored out, simple unbounded stress patterns over syllables are of the same formal character as simple harmony systems over consonants and vowels. This analysis thus shows that long-distance phenomena in two seemingly different domains are actually of the same kind. This chapter defines culminativity as 'exactly one stress per word', which is one way in which the term has been understood in the past (see, for example, Hayes 1995). In other words, culminativity here encompasses both the 'oblig-atory' (at least one stress per word) and 'culminative' (at most one stress per word) properties discussed by Hyman (this volume). This chapter begins by reviewing what is known about unbounded stress patterns, and then explains the advantages of such computational representations. Next, this chapter reviews simple segmental harmony systems and their computational representations. Finally, it is shown how factoring culminativity out of the unbounded stress patterns yields patterns of the same formal character as simple segmental harmony systems. An 'Appendix' is included which precisely defines the formalisms used in this chapter. I thank James Rogers for valuable discussions and inspiration, William Idsardi for important feedback, and Harry van der Hulst and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on, and very careful reviewing of, earlier versions of this paper.