2021.09.06 20:30
Lee, Minkyung. 2021. Yucatec
spirantization revisited. Studies in
Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 27.2. 229-249. When a consonant abuts another consonant in a cluster, the first consonant C1 tends to be spirantized in the
language of Yucatec Maya. Interestingly, the presence or absence of C1-spirantization
is attributed to CC-homorganicity, i.e. the same place of articulation. The
data involving C1-spirantization are categorized into two types: one is a C1-stop homorganic to the following consonant C2, and the other is a homorganic C1-affricate
to C2. For the former, a C1-stop consistently turns into
a glottal fricative [h], not *[ʔ] or *[s].
For the latter, however, the C1-affricate
emerges as [s] (*[h]). Here asymmetry of C1-stop vs. C1-affricate
is observed, i.e. [h] vs. [s], respectively. Under CC-homorganicity, C1-spirantization
results from the interaction of OCP[Stop] and OCP[PL]. However, when CCs are
non-homorganic to each other, C1 is not spirantized at all.
Dep[Cont], re-ranked over OCP[Stop], entirely blocks any alternation to a
spirant *[h] or *[s]. Without
the aid of either Local Conjunction of Constraints (LCC) or Sympathy Theory as adopted in Fukazawa’s (2001) parallel OT account, the
co-work of OCP-type constraints and Max/Dep faithfulness constraints guarantees
a simpler and more accurate analysis. (Daegu University,
Professor)
Keywords: CC-(non-)homorganicity, C1-spirantization, OCP,
Max/Dep, OT
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