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Optimality theory and historical phonology: an example from nasal harmony in mundurukú

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dc.creator Picanço, Gessiane
dc.date 2013-06-28
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-28T19:51:19Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-28T19:51:19Z
dc.identifier https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4664
dc.identifier.uri https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/243966
dc.description This paper offers an account of diachronic changes in nasal harmony in Mundurukú, a Tupian language from Brazil. It attempts to show that the Optimality Theory provides new ways of accounting for sound change, other than constraint re-ranking. A comparison of Mundurukú and Kuruaya’s modern systems points out that the source system, Proto-Mundurukú, had similar properties to those currently observed in Kuruaya. In particular, nasal spread targets were voiced stops and sonorants, whereas voiceless obstruents were transparent. This system was developed into another in Pre-Mundurukú, because new contrasts were introduced in the language, turning obstruents into opaque segments, thus blocking nasalization. Formal OT account of both cases relies on restricting harmony constraints, as shown by the relative chronology that gave rise to Mundurukú’s modern system. In addition, this study discusses the consequences of this change to synchronic grammar, and how it explains the process’ irregularities. pt-BR
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language por
dc.publisher UNESP pt-BR
dc.relation https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4664/4548
dc.rights Copyright (c) 2013 ALFA: Revista de Linguística pt-BR
dc.source ALFA: Revista de Linguística; v. 57 n. 1 (2013) pt-BR
dc.source 1981-5794
dc.subject Sound change pt-BR
dc.subject Nasal harmony pt-BR
dc.subject Optimality theory pt-BR
dc.subject Historical phonology pt-BR
dc.subject Mundurukú pt-BR
dc.title Optimality theory and historical phonology: an example from nasal harmony in mundurukú pt-BR
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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