Progressive place assimilation in optimality theory

<p>This thesis presents an investigation into progressive place agreement in clusters through the lens of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004; McCarthy & Prince, 1995, 1999). A large typology of such languages is presented and examined to detail a broad swath of phenomena. The main line of inquiry over this typology is how direction of assimilation is formally represented. This work argues that simple phonological mechanisms explain the cross-linguistic effects including an agreement constraint and conflicting faithfulness constraints.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Lamont, Andrew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Beverley Goodman, Ph.D., Chair
• T. Daniel Seely, Ph.D.

• language and languages
• grammar
• comparitive and general
• phonology
• Linguistics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/650

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2029