In addition to the H-tone anticipation (HTA) rule we focused on in Chapter 4, Luganda has
another phrasal phonological rule that also happens to result in H-plateaus, but in a more …

Within the 'familiar European languages', morphemes generally appear to be objects—roots
and affixes with some lexically-specified segmental contents. Other morphemes attested in …

This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically coherent account of the
phonology of modern Welsh. It begins by describing the history of Welsh, its relation to the …

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OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS Edited by Laurence Horn Yale University …

Ghost segments are best analysed as weakly active elements under the assumption of
Gradient Symbolic Representations (Smolensky & Goldrick, 2016; Rosen, 2016). This …

This dissertation focuses on replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages of Mali,
where a word's lexical tone is replaced with a tonal overlay in specific morphosyntactic …

This dissertation investigates stress assignment in lexical accent systems within the
framework of the Accent-First Theory (van der Hulst 1984, 1996, 2012, 2014). The main …

One of the most important insights of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) is that
phonological processes can be reduced to the interaction between faithfulness and …

Initial consonant mutation is one of the best known, although not best understood,
phonological characteristics of the Celtic languages: the initial consonant of a word form …

Celtic mutations are, descriptively, a set of phonological rules operating on word-initial
consonants triggered by the word's morpho-syntactic environment. Mutations occur in all …