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(6.12) Contrastive <strong>hierarchy</strong> for Classical Manchu (Zhang 1996)<br />

a. SDA: [low] > [coronal] > [labial] > [ATR]<br />

qp<br />

[+low] [–low]<br />

ei ei<br />

[+labial] [–labial] [+coronal] [–coronal]<br />

g ty g ty<br />

/ç/ [+ATR] [–ATR] /i/ [+ATR] [–ATR]<br />

g g g g<br />

/´/ /a/ /u/ /U/<br />

b. Output specifications<br />

€<br />

⎡ –low ⎤<br />

/i/ =<br />

⎣ ⎢ +coronal⎦<br />

⎥<br />

⎡ +low ⎤<br />

/a/ = ⎢ –labial⎥<br />

⎣ ⎢ –ATR ⎦ ⎥<br />

⎡ –low ⎤<br />

/u/ = ⎢ –coronal⎥<br />

⎣ ⎢ +ATR ⎦ ⎥<br />

/´/ =<br />

€<br />

⎡ +low ⎤<br />

⎢ –labial⎥<br />

⎣ ⎢ +ATR ⎦ ⎥<br />

⎡ –low ⎤<br />

/U/ = ⎢ –coronal⎥<br />

⎣ ⎢ –ATR ⎦ ⎥<br />

⎡ +low ⎤<br />

/ç/ =<br />

⎣ ⎢ +labial⎦<br />

⎥<br />

€<br />

Start<strong>in</strong>g at the top of the <strong>hierarchy</strong>, the feature [low] makes the first<br />

€<br />

€<br />

€<br />

dichotomy <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>ventory: all segments must be specified for this feature. I will<br />

use the constra<strong>in</strong>t MAX [F] to require that any specification of F (+ or –) must be<br />

preserved. On the assumption that only fully specified <strong>in</strong>puts are provided to the<br />

grammar, rank<strong>in</strong>g MAX [low] highest will ensure that any underly<strong>in</strong>g value of<br />

[low] is preserved <strong>in</strong> the output.<br />

<strong>The</strong> next feature <strong>in</strong> the Manchu <strong>hierarchy</strong> is [coronal]. If we rank MAX<br />

[coronal] next, then any underly<strong>in</strong>g value of this feature will be preserved <strong>in</strong> the<br />

output. However, a segment that is [+low] may not be specified for [coronal];<br />

that is, we must exclude the feature comb<strong>in</strong>ation [coronal, +low] for any value of<br />

[coronal]. <strong>The</strong>refore, ranked higher than MAX [coronal], but lower than MAX<br />

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