Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition
The article scrutinises several vowel reduction and lenition phenomena by employing a model of syntax-like structural representations, i.e. Government Phonology 2.0. In contrast to the standard GP model, whereby lenition and vowel reduction can be viewed as shortening, element suppression or status...
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The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
2021-12-01
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The article scrutinises several vowel reduction and lenition phenomena by employing a model of syntax-like structural representations, i.e. Government Phonology 2.0. In contrast to the standard GP model, whereby lenition and vowel reduction can be viewed as shortening, element suppression or status switching, the structural approach employs the procedure of tree pruning with a heavily limited role of melodic annotation. This paper will take a closer look at node removal with special attention to its trajectory. In particular, two basic directionalities are considered: top-down and bottom-up. The former has been proposed to account for vowel reduction whereby the highest positions are deleted retaining the head and potentially its sister. The acquisition of plosives and fricatives points to the latter trajectory, which disposes of nodes closer to the head. However, the choice of positions that are targeted in weak contexts might be also related to the inherently encoded hierarchy of terminal nodes within the constituents in question.
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| spelling | doaj-art-81b3da1a38bf4a91a266135e683af3d22025-01-21T05:13:47ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882021-12-01710.31743/lingbaw.13451Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenitionKarolina Drabikowska0John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin The article scrutinises several vowel reduction and lenition phenomena by employing a model of syntax-like structural representations, i.e. Government Phonology 2.0. In contrast to the standard GP model, whereby lenition and vowel reduction can be viewed as shortening, element suppression or status switching, the structural approach employs the procedure of tree pruning with a heavily limited role of melodic annotation. This paper will take a closer look at node removal with special attention to its trajectory. In particular, two basic directionalities are considered: top-down and bottom-up. The former has been proposed to account for vowel reduction whereby the highest positions are deleted retaining the head and potentially its sister. The acquisition of plosives and fricatives points to the latter trajectory, which disposes of nodes closer to the head. However, the choice of positions that are targeted in weak contexts might be also related to the inherently encoded hierarchy of terminal nodes within the constituents in question. https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/13451vowel reductionlenitionstructuretree pruningphonological representation |
| spellingShingle | Karolina Drabikowska Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition LingBaW vowel reduction lenition structure tree pruning phonological representation |
| title | Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition |
| title_full | Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition |
| title_fullStr | Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition |
| title_short | Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition |
| title_sort | tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition |
| topic | vowel reduction lenition structure tree pruning phonological representation |
| url | https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/13451 |
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