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Dissertation - Michael Becker

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(45)ID(voice) *VtV *VÙV amaÙ *VÙV anaÙa. amaÃ-1 ≻ amaÙ-1 L Wb. anaÙ-1 ≻ anaÃ-1 W Lc. sepet-i ≻ seped-i W LInstalling *VÙV amaÙ removes the first winner-loser pair. This leaves IDENT(voice) withno L’s in its column, so it is installed, and the last two winner-loser pairs are removed.Then, *VtV and *VÙV anaÙ are installed, yielding the ranking in (46).(46) *VÙV amaÙ ≫ IDENT(voice) ≫ *VtV, *VÙV anaÙThe resulting grammar has successfully partitioned the data available to the learner:Lexical items that end in Ù are listed with the two clones of *VÙV, and the t-final noun wasnot listed, since t-final nouns behave consistently in this limited set of data.Cloning of *VtV will only become necessary once the speaker encounters a word withan alternating t, e.g. kanat ∼ kanad-1 ‘wing’, as in (47). Note that whenever the speakerlearns a new paradigm, information about constraint conflicts may change; therefore,constraint cloning always starts from square one with the addition of a new winner-loserpair.50

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