• DOI:10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780190210304.003.0010
• Corpus ID: 30587338

On the Targets of Phonological Realization

@inproceedings{Embick2017OnTT,
  title={On the Targets of Phonological Realization},
  author={David Embick},
  year={2017}
}

• D. Embick
• Published 23 February 2017
• Linguistics

This paper compares the predictions of theories that allow p honological realization (Vocabulary Insertion) only at morphemes (MIO), versu s theories that also allow realization of non-terminal nodes in the syntactic structure (INT). The empirical phenomena examined are analytic/synthetic alternations, where INT’ s predictions connect with those made by word/phrase blocking theories; and irregular stem a llomorphy, of the type seen in e.g.sing/sang. With respect to locality, MIO theories predict that key int eractions will take place when morphemes are hierarchically or linearly lo cal, whereas INT predicts that syntactic constituent structure alone should be relevant. The main argument of the paper is that there is empirical evidence for MIO, and that INT’s pred ictions are not borne out. This finding supports a model of the grammar in which significant ge eralizations about phonological form are the product of a number of interacting and de rivationally related systems: syntactic representations, hierarchical and linear relat ions among morphemes, phonological representations, etc.