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Michal Temkin Martínez
413-421 (complete pdf)
This paper presents an analysis of allophony, exceptionality, and variation in Modern Hebrew spirantization within a single grammar. The proposed account handles both regularly spirantizing and exceptional segments by extending the set-based approach of Pater (2000) to the segmental level. In this approach, exceptional segments (which do not vary) are members of a set which is indexed to a faithfulness constraint that dominates the markedness constraints driving spirantization. Variation in regularly alternating segments--which was found in an acceptability rating task--is accounted for through stochastic ranking of the relevant markedness constraints.
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Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-428-7 library binding
vii+466 pages
publication date: 2008
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA