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The structure of the German vocabulary: edge marking of categories and functional considerations by RICHARD WIESE is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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That phonology can signal the boundaries of constituents has been well known since Trubetzkoy identified the delimitative function of phonology. In this paper, it is argued that such edge marking may be much more systematic than observed in earlier work. In particular, the stress domains (foot, word, compound, phrase) and the morphological categories (root, stem, word) of German systematize their edge marking by a repeating alternation in moving from left to right (stress) or by a switch in feature values for [consonantal] (root, etc.). For the latter preference, quantitative evidence is provided. Such alternating patterns of edge marking are argued to be highly functional. Ways of treating these phenomena by means of a metaconstraint in optimality theory are discussed in the final section.
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- Author
- RICHARD WIESE
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)