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. The syntactic terminal element Y in situation II has the features [F1, F3]. Given that
we have the same Vocabulary Items as before, only the phonological material /PB/
can be inserted, because /PA/ requires a feature not present in the terminal morpheme.
Y
syntactic terminal
syntactic terminal
[F1]
element Y
element Y
[F3]
/P A/ ↔ {F1, F2} /P B/ ↔ {F1}
Vocabulary Items
Vocabulary Items
c. We have the same syntactic element as in (15)b, but instead of the Vocabulary Item
VIA we have a VIC which can be inserted in a terminal morpheme carrying the
features [F3]. The phonological material of both Vocabulary Items could be inserted.
Yet, the feature specification doesn’t allow any decision because both VIs match the
same number of features.
Y
syntactic terminal
syntactic terminal
[F1]
element Y
element Y
[F3]
/P C / ↔ {F3} /P B / ↔ {F1}
Vocabulary Items
Vocabulary Items
In such cases other criteria are necessary, e.g., feature hierarchies (cf. Noyer 1992,
1997) or feature geometries (cf. Harley & Ritter 1999). These will allow us to assess
a feature (combination) as more or less marked compared to other features or feature
combinations. A VI specified for more marked features is placed higher in the list of
possible VIs and will be preferred during the insertion mechanism.
(16) Impoverishment, Fusion and Fission
syntactic
syntactic
terminal
terminal
mapping
mapping
process
process
element
element
X
[F1]
[F2]
[F3]
X Fusion:
[X] [Y] → [X/Y] / .....
Y
[F4]
[F5]
X
[F1]
[F2]
[F3]
X
[F1]
[F2]
[F3]
Fission:
[X] → [X] [Y] / .....
Impoverishment:
[F3] → Ø/ ……
X
[F1]
output
output
X/Y
[F1]
[F2]
[F3]
[F4]
[F5]
X
X
[F1]
[F2]
Y
[F2]
[F3]
2.2 Stress assignment in verbal environments (Oltra Massuet & Arregi 2005)
Oltra Massuet & Arregi (2005:49) argue that, in Spanish, the metrical parenthesis “are
projected from certain syntactic functional heads” (Oltra Massuet & Arregi 2005:49) and
propose the stress algorithm given in (17):
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