Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism - John J. McCarthy
8. Contexts for Epenthesis in Harmonic Serialism
Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism - John J. McCarthy
Claire Moore-Cantwell [+]
Yale University
Claire Moore-Cantwell is a Lecturer at Yale University. She received her PhD in 2015 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in phonological theory, phonological processing, and psycholinguistics.
Description
This chapter proposes a restriction on GEN in Harmonic Serialism, which leads to the empirically correct prediction that epenthesis cannot repair metrical markedness cross-linguistically (such as stress clashes and lapses). Epenthesis as a repair to such structures constitutes an unreachable output in HS - an output which is globally optimal under some constraint set but which cannot be reached by any legal derivation.