Dissertation - Michael Becker

with clones of the specific IDENT(voice) σ1 causes the masking of W’s and L’s from thecolumn of the more general IDENT.(56)IDENT σ1IDENT σ1IDENT〈*VÙV, saÙ〉,〈*VÙV, taÙ〉,*VÙV*VtV〈*VtV, at〉〈*VtV, tat〉a. saÙ-ı ≻ saÃ-ı W⊘ W Lb. taÃ-ı ≻ taÙ-ı L⊘ L Wc. anaÙ-ı ≻ anaÃ-ı W Ld. amaÃ-ı ≻ amaÙ-ı L We. at-ı ≻ ad-ı W⊘ W Lf. tad-ı ≻ tat-ı L⊘ L Wg. sepet-i ≻ seped-i W Lh. kanad-ı ≻ kanat-ı L WNext, the learner is ready to clone IDENT(voice), which will again list items by theconstraints they conflict with. The resulting grammar is in (57).(57) IDENT(voice) σ1〈*VÙV, saÙ〉〈*VtV, at〉≫ IDENT(voice) 〈*VÙV, anaÙ〉〈*VtV, sepet〉≫ *VÙV, *VtV ≫IDENT(voice) σ1〈*VÙV, taÙ〉 , IDENT(voice) 〈*VÙV, amaÙ〉〈*VtV, tat〉〈*VtV, kanat〉This grammar correctly partitions the lexicon: Clones of IDENT(voice) σ1 list all themono-syllabic stop-final nouns that the speaker has, and those are further divided by58