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Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!
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In: ISSN: 0024-3892 ; EISSN: 1530-9150 ; Linguistic Inquiry ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03650157 ; Linguistic Inquiry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2022, pp.1-60. ⟨10.1162/ling_a_00469⟩ (2022)
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International audience ; Abstract Haitian presents a case of optional regressive nasal assimilation: /fami/ [fãmi] ‘family’. Vowels may optionally become nasal preceding a nasal consonant (VN). Curiously, this process systematically underapplies in the VN sequences corresponding to Vowel-Rhotic-Nasal sequences in French (VRN): [ʃãm] chambre ‘room’ vs. [ʃam] charme ‘charm’. Haitian is also famous for its non-optimizing phonologically conditioned allomorph selection, handled in previous analyses as an anti-markedness effect (Klein 2003) or as a morphologically specified vocabulary insertion (Bonet, Lloret, and Mascaró 2007): [tɛ-a] ‘the land’ vs. [ʃat-la] ‘the cat’. The Strict CV reanalysis of Haitian proposed here simplifies the phonological analysis of the language by eliminating both the counterfeeding and the allomorphy. In our analysis, etymological VRN and VR# have a different synchronic description; VRNs contain no underlying R, though VR#s do. Although VRNs have no underlying rhotic, they crucially do contain an empty CV. This empty syllable structure disrupts the locality between the nasal assimilation’s trigger and its target, generating the counterfeeding: /ʃam/ = [ʃãm] ‘room’ vs. /ʃaCVm/ = [ʃam] *[ʃãm] ‘charm’. On this view, the counterfeeding receives exactly the same explanation as the blocking in words like /palVmis/ [palmis] *[pãlmis] ‘palm tree’. This accounts for the counterfeeding. Turning to the allomorphy, only VR#s present synchronic R-zero alternations: [tɛ] ‘land’ vs. [ãteʀe] ‘to bury’. This synchronic alternation is explained as a contextual phonological condition on R (it must be prevocalic) and the underlying shape of the definite article (it begins with a floating consonant). The interplay between these factors generates the surface phenomenon without any allomorphy at all. Instead, it proposes a phonological solution for the surface variation in articles based on a single underlying form (see Nikiema 1999).
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03650157
https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00469
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Minimality, prosodic hierarchy and melodic content in hypocoristics
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In: Old World Conference in Phonology 19 ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03549030 ; Old World Conference in Phonology 19, Jan 2022, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain (2022)
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The locus of gender in Tashlhiyt Berber nouns
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In: Workshop on prefixes vs. suffixes in Afroasiatic ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03608028 ; Workshop on prefixes vs. suffixes in Afroasiatic, Mar 2022, Paris, France (2022)
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Glide-high vowel alternations at the syntax-phonology interface
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03185932 ; 2021 (2021)
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Les formations hypocoristiques : poids, minimalité et constituance prosodique
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In: 18ème conférence annuelle du Réseau Français de Phonologie ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03282816 ; 18ème conférence annuelle du Réseau Français de Phonologie, Jul 2021, Clermont-ferrand (en ligne), France (2021)
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Minimality, weight and melodic content: The view from French and Berber hypocoristics
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483236 ; 2021 (2021)
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Minimality, weight and melodic content: The view from French and Berber hypocoristics
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483236 ; 2021 (2021)
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Formalizing headedness-driven phonotactics in English
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In: 17th Old World Conference in Phonology ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03022173 ; 17th Old World Conference in Phonology, Feb 2020, Warsaw, Poland (2020)
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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021) ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02906144 ; Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), Ubiquity Press, 2020, 5 (1), ⟨10.5334/gjgl.874⟩ (2020)
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Asymmetric inflection in Berber: the view from gender
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03054108 ; 2020 (2020)
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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 74 ; 2397-1835 (2020)
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Asymmetric headedness and licensing constraints in English
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In: Machester Phonology Meeting ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02142806 ; Machester Phonology Meeting, May 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom (2019)
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Towards a derived typology of branching onsets
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In: Government Phonology Round Table ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02419093 ; Government Phonology Round Table, Jun 2019, Vienna, Austria ; https://linguistik.univie.ac.at/en/research/government-phonology-round-table-2019-gprt2019/programme/ (2019)
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Do branching onsets need specific representations?
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In: Manchester Phonology Meeting ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02142818 ; Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom (2019)
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Vers une typologie dérivée des attaques branchantes
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In: 17èmes Rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02419134 ; 17èmes Rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie, Jun 2019, Orléans, France (2019)
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Do branching onsets need any specific representations?
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In: Manchester Phonology Meeting ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02419128 ; Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom (2019)
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Headedness and licensing constraints in the phonotactics of (Old) French
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In: Phonological Theory Agora, The Balance Between Universals and Variation in Grammar ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02072431 ; Phonological Theory Agora, The Balance Between Universals and Variation in Grammar, Mar 2019, Nice, France (2019)
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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Arabic and Berber
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02420958 ; 2019 (2019)
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From babbling to first words in Tashlhiyt language acquisition: longitudinal two-case studies
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In: ISSN: 0008-4131 ; EISSN: 1710-1115 ; Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01960271 ; Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 63 (04), pp.493-526. ⟨10.1017/cnj.2018.6⟩ (2018)
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Syllable structure and vowel-zero alternations in Moroccan Arabic and Berber
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In: The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01723842 ; The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics, 2018 (2018)
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