A typological study of vowel interactions in Basque

A typological study of vowel interactions in Basque

The aim of this paper is to check the factorial typology for a set of phonological constraints on vowel interactions in Basque against corpus data (Hualde and Gaminde 1998, <em>Euskararen Herri Hizkeren Atlasa</em>, ‘The Basque Dialectological Atlas’) with the help of OT-Help 2.0 (Staubs...

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Main Authors: Varun deCastro-Arrazola, Edoardo Cavirani, Kathrin Linke, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-10-01
Series:Isogloss
Subjects:
basque
vowel interactions
factorial typology
opacity
optimality theory
element theory
turbidity theory.
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/19
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Summary:The aim of this paper is to check the factorial typology for a set of phonological constraints on vowel interactions in Basque against corpus data (Hualde and Gaminde 1998, <em>Euskararen Herri Hizkeren Atlasa</em>, ‘The Basque Dialectological Atlas’) with the help of OT-Help 2.0 (Staubs <em>et al.</em> 2010), a specialized software that calculates factorial typologies. The formal analysis developed to account for different patterns of vowel interactions in Basque, including those patterns displaying phonological opacity, implements Element Theory (Backley 2011) in Turbidity Theory (Goldrick 2001, Van Oostendorp 2008). The proposed analysis has the virtue of predicting all attested patterns of a specific type of vowel interactions in Basque and excluding the unattested patterns.
ISSN:2385-4138

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