Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xfwgj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-07T23:18:34.752Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Overshoot in licensing-driven harmony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2020

Aaron Kaplan
Aaron Kaplan*
Affiliation:
University of Utah
*
*E-mail: a.kaplan@utah.edu.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Kaplan (2018a) argues for a positive and gradient version of positional licensing in Harmonic Grammar. A chief difference between this formalism and standard positional licensing is that it predicts that harmony whose goal is to place a feature in a licensing position may overshoot its target by extending beyond the licensing position. Centralisation harmony in Tudanca Montañés bears out this prediction: though harmony triggered by a final vowel typically stops at the stressed syllable, under particular circumstances it extends into the pretonic domain. Positive gradient positional licensing is indispensable in an account of this. It plays a central role in a gang effect that drives overshoot, an interaction that cannot be replicated with standard versions of positional licensing.

Type
Articles
Information
Phonology , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 605 - 626
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2020

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

For feedback during the development of this work I am grateful to audiences at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting, WECOL 2017 and the 2018 LSA Annual Meeting, as well as participants in UC Santa Cruz's Phlunch in December 2017. I especially wish to thank Shannon Barrios and Brendan Terry for helping me navigate Spanish-language sources. All errors are of course mine.

References

REFERENCES

Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas (1994). Grounded phonology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Barnes, Jonathan (2006). Strength and weakness at the interface: positional neutralization in phonetics and phonology. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.Google Scholar
Beckman, Jill N. (1999). Positional faithfulness. New York: Garland.Google Scholar
Blumenfeld, Lev (2006). Constraints on phonological interactions. PhD dissertation, Stanford University.Google Scholar
Crosswhite, Katherine M. (2001). Vowel reduction in Optimality Theory. New York & London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Dawson, Willa (1980). Tibetan phonology. PhD dissertation, University of Washington.Google Scholar
Flemming, Edward S. (1994). The role of metrical structure in segmental rules. NELS 24. 97–110.Google Scholar
Goldsmith, John A. (1989). Licensing, inalterability, and harmonic rule application. CLS 25:1. 145–156.Google Scholar
Hualde, José Ignacio (1989). Autosegmental and metrical spreading in the vowel-harmony systems of northwestern Spain. Linguistics 27. 773–805.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hualde, José Ignacio (1998). Asturian and Cantabrian metaphony. Rivista di Linguistica 10. 99–108.Google Scholar
Itô, Junko (1988). Syllable theory in prosodic phonology. New York: Garland.Google Scholar
Itô, Junko & Mester, Armin (1999). Realignment. In Kager, René, van der Hulst, Harry & Zonneveld, Wim (eds.) The prosody–morphology interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 188–217.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jiménez, Jesús & Lloret, Maria-Rosa (2007). Andalusian vowel harmony: weak triggers and perceptibility. Paper presented at the workshop ‘Harmony in the languages of the Mediterranean’, 4th Old World Conference in Phonology, Rhodes. Handout available as ROA-901 from the Rutgers Optimality Archive.Google Scholar
Kaplan, Aaron (2017). Opportunistic centralization in Tudanca Montañés. Poster presented at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Available (August 2019) at https://linguistics.utah.edu/faculty/aaron_kaplan/kaplan%20tudanca_mfm_poster.pdf.Google Scholar
Kaplan, Aaron (2018a). Positional licensing, asymmetric trade-offs and gradient constraints in Harmonic Grammar. Phonology 35. 247–286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kaplan, Aaron (2018b). Asymmetric Crisp Edge. In Bennett, Ryan, Angeles, Andrew, Brasoveanu, Adrian, Buckley, Dhyana, Kalivoda, Nick, Kawahara, Shigeto, McGuire, Grant & Padgett, Jaye (eds.) Hana-bana (花々): a Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r55j619.Google Scholar
Kawahara, Shigeto (2008). On the proper treatment of non-crisp-edges. In Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Jun, Sun-Ah, Sells, Peter, Clancy, Patricia M. & Iwasaki, Shoichi (eds.) Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 13. Stanford: CSLI. 55–67.Google Scholar
Kaze, Jeffery W. (1989). Metaphony in Italian and Spanish dialects revisited. PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Google Scholar
Kimper, Wendell (2011). Competing triggers: transparency and opacity in vowel harmony. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.Google Scholar
Kimper, Wendell (2016). Positive constraints and finite goodness in Harmonic Serialism. In McCarthy, John J. & Pater, Joe (eds.) Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism. London: Equinox. 221–235.Google Scholar
Legendre, Géraldine, Miyata, Yoshiro & Smolensky, Paul (1990). Harmonic Grammar: a formal multi-level connectionist theory of linguistic well-formedness: an application. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale: Erlbaum. 884–891.Google Scholar
Lloret, Maria-Rosa (2018). Andalusian vowel harmony at the phonology–morphology interface. Paper presented at the 2015 Old World Conference on Phonology, London. Slides available (August 2019) at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322750828.Google Scholar
Lloret, Maria-Rosa & Jiménez, Jesús (2009). Un análisis óptimo de la armonía vocálica del andaluz. Verba 36. 293–325.Google Scholar
Lombardi, Linda (1994). Laryngeal features and laryngeal neutralization. New York: Garland.Google Scholar
McCarthy, John J. (2003). OT constraints are categorical. Phonology 20. 75–138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pater, Joe (2009). Weighted constraints in generative linguistics. Cognitive Science 33. 999–1035.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Penny, Ralph (1978). Estudio estructural del habla de Tudanca. Tübingen: Niemeyer.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Potts, Christopher, Pater, Joe, Jesney, Karen, Bhatt, Rajesh & Becker, Michael (2010). Harmonic Grammar with linear programming: from linear systems to linguistic typology. Phonology 27. 77–117.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Prince, Alan (2007). The pursuit of theory. In Lacy, Paul de (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 33–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Prince, Alan & Smolensky, Paul (1993). Optimality Theory: constraint interaction in generative grammar. Ms, Rutgers University & University of Colorado, Boulder. Published 2004, Malden, Mass. & Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Smolensky, Paul (1993). Harmony, markedness, and phonological activity. Paper presented at Rutgers Optimality Workshop. Available as ROA-87 from the Rutgers Optimality Archive.Google Scholar
Staubs, Robert, Becker, Michael, Potts, Christopher, Pratt, Patrick, McCarthy, John J. & Pater, Joe (2010). OT-Help 2.0. Software package. http://people.umass.edu/othelp.Google Scholar
Steriade, Donca (1995). Underspecification and markedness. In Goldsmith, John A. (ed.) The handbook of phonological theory. Cambridge, Mass. & Oxford: Blackwell. 114–174.Google Scholar
Tournadre, Nicolas & Dorje, Sangda (2003). Manual of Standard Tibetan: language and civilization. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications.Google Scholar
Walker, Rachel (2001). Round licensing, harmony, and bisyllabic triggers in Altaic. NLLT 19. 827–878.Google Scholar
Walker, Rachel (2004). Vowel feature licensing at a distance: evidence from northern Spanish language varieties. WCCFL 23. 787–800.Google Scholar
Walker, Rachel (2005). Weak triggers in vowel harmony. NLLT 23. 917–989.Google Scholar
Walker, Rachel (2006). Long distance metaphony: a Generalized Licensing proposal. Handout of paper presented at the Phonology Fest Workshop on Current Perspectives on Phonology, Indiana University. Available (August 2019) at https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/1208/docs/WalkerLicensing6-23.pdf.Google Scholar
Walker, Rachel (2011). Vowel patterns in language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zoll, Cheryl (1997). Conflicting directionality. Phonology 14. 263–286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zoll, Cheryl (1998a). Parsing below the segment in a constraint-based framework. Stanford: CSLI.Google Scholar
Zoll, Cheryl (1998b). Positional asymmetries and licensing. Ms, MIT. Available as ROA-282 from the Rutgers Optimality Archive.Google Scholar