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No transposition in Harmonic Serialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2020

Chikako Takahashi
Chikako Takahashi*
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Stony Brook University
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*E-mail: chikako.takahashi@stonybrook.edu.
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Abstract

This paper presents a Harmonic Serialism analysis of synchronic metathesis, and proposes to eliminate transposition as an atomic operation, instead analysing metathesis as a result of the sequential application of simpler operations. The analysis of phase alternations in Rotuman offers a unified account of metathesis, deletion and umlaut as all undergoing splitting followed by fusion. A non-transposition analysis of multiple metathesis in Kwara'ae shows that a prosodically motivated locality restriction on the splitting domain is crucial in deriving the attested patterns. CC metathesis in Balangao is analysed as fusion followed by splitting. Eliminating transposition has several benefits: (a) it simplifies the inventory of operations in Harmonic Serialism, (b) it correctly predicts the locality restrictions on metathesis patterns with smaller constraint sets and (c) it accounts for the differences observed in the segment types involved in CV(VC) vs. CC metathesis.

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Phonology , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 695 - 726
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2020

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Footnotes

I would first like to thank Michael Becker for his helpful feedback and advice. I would also like to thank Jeffrey Heinz, Christina Bethin and Ellen Broselow, as well as audiences at Phonology in the North East (PhoNE), the 5th Annual Meeting on Phonology and the 2018 Old World Conference on Phonology for their questions and comments. This work has additionally benefited from comments and questions from three anonymous reviewers and the associate editor, and I greatly appreciate everyone's helpful feedback. A preliminary version of this paper appeared as Takahashi (2018).

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