Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky

Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky

6. The role of prosody in Russian voicing

Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky

Jaye Padgett
University of California, Santa Cruz

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This paper provides an analysis of Russian voicing assimilation and final devoicing couched within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993 [2004]), one that is cue-based but sensitive to questions of higher prosodic structure. An important goal will be to elucidate areas where the facts have been unclear in the past. Apart from prosody-related matters, this includes for example the controversial status of sonorants in the voicing processes. As we  will see  there is an important distinction to be made between processes that apply exceptionlessly and categorically and those that do not.

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Padgett, Jaye. 6. The role of prosody in Russian voicing. Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 181 - 207 Feb 2012. ISBN 9781845536770. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20117. Date accessed: 23 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20117. Feb 2012

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