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Modelling morpho-phonology: consonant replacements in Polish

Publication date: 15.10.2012

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 7 (2012), Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 129 - 164

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Sławomir Zdziebko
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
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Modelling morpho-phonology: consonant replacements in Polish

Abstract

Gussmann (2007) put forward a morpho-phonological analysis of Polish palatalizations which is an alternative to traditional re-write rules promoting abstractness in phonology. The aim of this article is to turn Gussmann’s descriptive tool into a coherent theory. In order to do that I propose a set of premises that regulate the working of the component of morpho-phonology. Among these premises the Minimalist Hypothesis (Kaye 1992) and the Locality Principle occupy the most prominent position. The former says that all morpho-phonological replacements work whenever their conditions are met (no (counter)bleeding or counterfeeding is possible), whereas the latter limits the scope of morpho-phonological replacements to nodes entering the relation of concatenation (Embick 2010). The last part of the article is devoted to the cases that apparently violate the Minimalist Hypothesis. These are the replacements that Gussmann (2007) subsumes under the label P(alatalization) R(eplacement) 7. The article shows that the problematic replacements presented as PR7 may be convincingly analysed as root-specific and thus do not constitute counterexamples to the Minimalist Hypothesis.

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 7 (2012), Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 129 - 164

Article type: Original article

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Modelling morpho-phonology: consonant replacements in Polish

Polish: Morfofonologiczne podejście do mutacji spółgłoskowych w języku polskim

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8303-8773

Sławomir Zdziebko
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8303-8773 Orcid
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The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

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