1986/06/01 by Bruce Hayes · 4 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Speech Recognition and Synthesis
paper · doi:10.2307/414676
Geminate consonants and long vowels frequently resist the application of rules that would a-priori be expected to apply to them; i.e., they are frequently ‘inalterable’. This article argues that, by invoking the theory of CV Phonology, it is often possible to predict which phonological rules are unable to affect long segments. The prediction follows from rather minimal assumptions about how rules apply to forms.