A declarative approach to onset maximisation

Date
1997-01
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Publisher
University of Calgary
Abstract
A consonantal cluster is sometimes structurally ambiguous according to the phonotactic grammar of French. Actually, a maximum of consonants must be associated to the onset of the right-hand syllable. 'Marbre' is syllabified as /mar·bre/, not */marb·re/. In Declarative Phonology, Onset Maximisation must be realised by means of unification, not by a resyllabification process that modifies a prespecified structure. In this paper, I propose a declarative analysis of onset maximisation in the form of a constraint on syllable strings.
Description
Alain Thériault, Université de Montréal
Keywords
Linguistics, Phonology, Grammar, Comparative and general--Syllable, French language
Citation
Thériault, A. (1997). A declarative approach to onset maximisation. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 19(Winter), 1-8.