Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1661_bakovic_1.pdf
| ROA: | 1310 |
| Title: | Apparent ‘sufficiently similar’ degemination in Catalan is due to coalescence |
| Authors: | Eric Bakovic |
| Comment: | To appear in the Proceedings of the 91st Annual Meeting of the LSA |
| Length: | 9 |
| Abstract: | Cameron et al. (2010) and Fruehwald & Gorman (2011) present the pattern of homorganic consonant cluster reduction in Catalan as a challenge to Bakovic’s (2005) theory of antigemination, which predicts that any feature ignored in the determination of consonant identity for the purposes of antigemination in a given language must independently assimilate in that language. I argue that the pattern in Catalan is not a counterexample to this prediction if the reduction process is analyzed as coalescence, following Wheeler (2005), rather than as deletion. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Keywords: | Phonology |