Listener oriented phonology - UvA

Listener-oriented phonology

UF

UFSFOF SF

OF

OF

speaker-based

UF UF

SF OFSF

OF

listener-oriented

Paul Boersma, University of Amsterda! Baltimore, September 21, 2004

Three French word onsets

Consonant: ?ga"s?)? `boy', ?fam? `woman'

Hache-aspir?: ?/aza"? `coincidence', ?/os? `rise'

Vowel: ??m? `man', ?ide? `idea'

Hache-aspir? sometimes acts like a consonant, sometimes like a vowel, sometimes like neither.

Neutralization

Phrase-initial: [(/)aza"], [(/)os], [(/)?m], [(/)ide] Phrase-initially, hache-aspir? acts like a vowel, or perhaps a vowel acts like hache-aspir?.

Process 1: elision

?l?+NOUNMASC? `the+NOUN': [l?ga"s?)], [l?aza"], [l?m]

?la+NOUNFEM? `the+NOUN': [lafam], [laos], [lide]

Elision of schwa or a only for vowel-initial words. Hache-aspir? blocks elision, like a consonant does.

Derivation of elision

l?+ga"s?) l?+/aza"

l?+?m

elision

l?ga"s?) l?/aza"

l?m

*/

l?ga"s?) l?aza"

l?m

Hache-aspir? blocks elision, because it is still a consonant when elision applies.

Counterfeeding rule order (predicts some opacity for OT).

Underlying representation

Hache-aspir? is a consonant (vs. vowel): Abstract consonant (Dell 1970) [+consonantal] (Hyman 1985) No features (Prunet 1986) ?/0aza"? vs. ??m? (Meisenburg & Gabriel 2004)

Syllable structure: Empty onset vs. no onset (Clements & Keyser 1983), or the reverse (De Jong 1990) Syllable island, i.e. ?.aza"? vs. ??m? (Tranel 1995)

And so on.

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