Generative And Nonlinear Phnology

Generative and Non-linear Phonology by Durand :Rules 1- /r/ → r / continuant-

-voice

.The phoneme /r/ is realized as voiceless in the context of a preceding voiceless stop L-realization -2 [/ [ C¹ // →elsewhere [[І / is velarized in two contexts: at the end of a word and when it is followed by one or more/

.consonants. It is not velarized elsewhere Lengthening -3 V → [+ long[ / voice +

(j)

C

A vowel (V) is lengthened in the context of a following voiced consonant ( C), with an .optional /j/ intervening between the two Flapping -4 t

→

ɾ/ d

V

V stressed

unstressed

.The voicing contrast between /t/ and /d/ is neutralized in this context and the result is the flap -5 / z/ strident + + cor str + voice + cor str + voice +

/

+ coronal

a)

/

- voice

b)

/

+ voice

c)

plur → add / z/ after all [+coronal, +strident[ segments add /z/ after all remaining [-voice[ segments add /s/ after all remaining [+voice[ segments :b and (c can be replaced by)

cor+ plur → αvoice

-6 +strid /

αvoice

:(Mid-Vowel Lowering (MVLOW -7 V Cº ə a) -high → +low / C C -low  b) Condition: CC in (a is not obstruent +liquid a tells us that lowering takes place if a consonant (C ) is followed by a schwa from which it) :can be separated by a string of zero or more consonants C C° ə 'rose 'mettre meurtre

/rozə/ → /metrə/ → /mørtrə/ →

r z ə 'rose m ε t r ə 'to put m œ r tr ə murder''

b indicates that MVLOW occurs before two consonants (CC ) or a consonant followed by) :( a word boundary ( C  heurter

/ørte/ →

C œ r t

C  sec

/sek/

s

→

ε

C e

k

:((Obligatory schwa- deletion in front of a vowel( elision(domain: phrases -8 ə/ → ø / ¹ V/ The subscripted hash symbol indicates that elision can take place across one word or more .word boundaries Truncation -9 C sonorant[→ ø / 

-[

A final obstruent is deleted when the following word begins with a consonant , or at the end .of a phrase

: A low back vowel -10 V

C

[

[+low[ → [α back[ /

[ αcoronal

articulatorily-based features))

The determination of the extrinsic allophones of the low vowel / / is straightforward in -11 :acoustic terms V [low[ → [αgrave[ / -12 sonlab /cor / ant ant+

-cont+ +lab -cor+

C [αgrave+[

/mp-

sonlab /cor / ant ant+

-cont-lab +cor+

/nt+

sonlab /cor / ant ant-

-cont-lab -cor-

/ k-

The nasal consonant and the plosive agree in point of articulation. This rule can be :abbreviated Nasal Place Assimilation sonαlab nasal[ → βcor / ant βcor ant

contαlab+[