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OPACITY AND SYMPATHY THEORY<br />

which accord<strong>in</strong>g to McCarthy 1998 differ <strong>in</strong> that the ❀candidates do not<br />

co<strong>in</strong>cide with <strong>in</strong>termediate levels <strong>of</strong> serial derivations).<br />

In ST the ❀candidate acquires a special status. As a result, all<br />

candidates have to be assessed as to whether they are faithful not only to<br />

the <strong>in</strong>put but also to the ❀candidate (<strong>in</strong> the manner that this is dictated by<br />

the ❀constra<strong>in</strong>t).<br />

<strong>The</strong> ❀constra<strong>in</strong>t acts as though it is the highest ranked<br />

(undom<strong>in</strong>ated) one <strong>in</strong> a ST tableau dur<strong>in</strong>g the first step (see section 7.3)<br />

<strong>of</strong> the evaluation and thus acquires a special status, too.<br />

6.3 Application <strong>of</strong> Sympathy <strong>The</strong>ory to CG<br />

<strong>The</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g tableaux show how ST applies to CG (a slightly<br />

modified version <strong>of</strong> under-application and over-application <strong>of</strong><br />

velarisation from Malikouti-Drachman 1999, handout):<br />

Tableau 3: Under-application <strong>of</strong> velarisation<br />

/omorf-I 9 a/ Strong *Cmplx ❀IDENT- ✮MAX<br />

ONSET<br />

I-O C<br />

O (pal)<br />

❀omor.fca * ✓<br />

☞omor.ca * *<br />

*rca<br />

omor.ka * * *<br />

omor.fa * * * *<br />

IDENT-<br />

I-O (pal)<br />

9 Malikouti-Drachman takes I to be an archi-phoneme <strong>in</strong> the underly<strong>in</strong>g<br />

representation.<br />

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