A Faithfulness Ranking Projected from a Perceptibility Scale: The Case of [+ Voice] in Japanese
@article{Kawahara2006AFR, title={A Faithfulness Ranking Projected from a Perceptibility Scale: The Case of [+ Voice] in Japanese}, author={Shigeto Kawahara}, journal={Language}, year={2006}, volume={82}, pages={536 - 574} }
Within the framework of optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004), Steriade (2001a,b) proposes the P-map hypothesis, whose fundamental tenet is that the rankings of faithfulness constraints are grounded in perceptual-similarity rankings. This article provides empirical support for this hypothesis. In Japanese loanword phonology, a voiced geminate, but not a singleton, devoices to dissimilate from another voiced obstruent within a single stem. Based on this observation, I argue that the…
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