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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785868203321

Autore

Hannahs S. J

Titolo

Prosodic structure and French morphophonology / / Stephen J. Hannahs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tùˆbingen : , : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , 1995

ISBN

3-11-096605-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (84 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 337

Classificazione

ID 4450

Disciplina

441.5

445

Soggetti

French language - Prosodic analysis

French language - Morphophonemics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Chapter 1: Introduction and background -- Chapter 2: Nasalization, prefixation and French in- -- Chapter 3: Glide formation, closed syllable adjustment and schwa -- Chapter 4: Morphophonology and the learned/non-learned distinction -- Appendix to Chapter Four -- Chapter 5: Model and interactions -- Chapter 6: Summary and conclusions -- References

Sommario/riassunto

This study is an examination of morphophonology in terms of the interaction between morphological structure and phonological structure. The goals of the study are to propose a coherent way of looking at morphophonology in structural terms while assuming a certain autonomy of the phonological and morphological components. The study assumes the basic lexical/postlexical dichotomy of Lexical Phonology, but refers centrally to prosodic structure of the type proposed by Selkirk (1980) and further developed by, among others, Nespor & Vogel (1986), rather than to level ordering. The specific processes of French morphophonology examined here include certain aspects of prefixation and nasalization, glide information, closed syllable adjustment and penultimate schwa specification, which are reanalysed in structural terms, in contrast to analyses in the literature relying on level ordering. Other aspects of French morphophonology argued in the literature to be rule governed, such as Learned Backing, are reanalysed in terms of stem suppletion. The study thus supports



Aronoff & Sridhar (1987), Fabb (1988), Booji (1989) and others in arguing against level ordering, while following the lead of Booji & Lieber (1993), Inkelas (1989) and others in advocating the concurrent existence of both morphological and prosodic structure.