An Account of the Asymmetry in Old English Breaking
An Account of the Asymmetry in Old English Breaking
- 한국영어학학회
- 영어학연구
- 영어학연구 제22호
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2006.12133 - 149 (17 pages)
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Old English Breaking presents a few intriguing asymmetric patterns, depending on the nature of the front vowels and the conditioning consonants that follow. One of them is that Old English /x/triggers breaking in isolation, whereas Old English /r, l/ require a following consonant in order to trigger breaking. Though recognized, this specific asymmetry has not been formally accounted for in previous works. We show that a modified constriction-based theory of representation (Clements & Hume 1995), which incorporates the temporal relation and the multi-layered structure for articulatorily complex segments such as /x, r, l/, provides an analysis that can predict the asymmetric pattern at hand in Old English Breaking. We also present a possible optimality-theoretic account of the asymmetry, employing phonetically-driven constraints and faithfulness constraints.
1. Introduction<BR>2. The Nature of the Environment for OE Breaking<BR>3. A Representational Account of OE Breaking and its Asymmetry<BR>4. An Optimality-theoretic Account of OE Breaking and the Asymmetry<BR>5. Summary<BR>References<BR>
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