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Dissertation - Michael Becker

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(2)/sprEd + d/ *DD DEP MAXa. ☞ sprEd *b. sprEdId *!c. sprEdd *!In terms of OT, then, zero-marked verbs are simply responding to a constraint rankingthat’s different from the constraint ranking that controls the regular verbs of the language.Regular ed-taking verbs that end in [t] or [d] require MAX to dominate DEP, whereas zeromarkedverbs require the opposite ranking.Verbs that do not end in [t] or [d], such as [stAr] (star), shown in (3), cannot be zeromarkedusing [d] as the underlying form of the past tense morpheme. The fully faithfulform starred harmonically bounds the zero-marked form, since it doesn’t violate any ofthe relevant constraints, including the one against clusters of alveolar stops. No ranking ofthese constraints can produce the zero-marked star as the past tense of star.(3)/stAr + d/ *DD DEP MAXa. ☞ stArdb. stArId *!c. stAr *!To summarize the result so far:Subjecting different verbs to different constraintrankings allows verbs to be zero-marked in the past only if they end in [t] or [d].6

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