Reconciling “Heavy” and “Long”: The Typology of Lexical Geminates

IF 1.6 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI:10.1162/ling_a_00499
N. Topintzi, Eva Zimmermann
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After decades of research, opinions are still split as to whether geminates should be represented as long or as heavy. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this issue by entertaining a model that rests on the assumption that all underlying geminates are moraic consonants but they might not emerge as such on the surface. We argue that this intuition—due to Davis (2011)—can be formalized in a theoretical model where 1) different degrees of prosodic integration are possible and 2) phonetic interpretation can refer to the difference between epenthetic and underlying elements. This model predicts that the questions of whether a mora has an effect for segmental length and whether it has an effect for syllabic weight are independent from each other. We show that this representational consequence correctly predicts the typology of attested combinations of geminates in different positions and singleton coda consonants in the languages of the world.
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调和“重”与“长”:词汇宝石的类型学
经过几十年的研究,对于双生染色体是否应该长或重的观点仍然存在分歧。在本文中,我们试图通过一个模型来解决这个问题,该模型基于所有潜在的双生音都是韵律辅音的假设,但它们可能不会在表面上出现。我们认为这种直觉——由于Davis(2011)——可以在一个理论模型中形式化,其中1)不同程度的韵律整合是可能的,2)语音解释可以参考外在元素和潜在元素之间的差异。该模型预测,动词是否对音段长度有影响,是否对音节重有影响,这两个问题是相互独立的。我们证明,这一表征结果正确地预测了世界语言中不同位置的双生组合和单尾辅音的类型学。
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