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A Formal Investigation of Q-Theory in Comparison to Autosegmental Representations

Published:2021 Issue:2 Volume:52 Page:333-358
ISSN:0024-3892
Container-title:Linguistic Inquiry
language:en
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Author:

Jardine Adam¹,Danis Nick²,Iacoponi Luca³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Linguistics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, adam.jardine@rutgers.edu

2. Linguistics Program, Washington University in St. Louis, nsdanis@wustl.edu

3. Gdansk Amazon Development Center, lacoponi@amazon.com

Abstract

We use model theory to rigorously evaluate Q-Theory as proposed in Shih and Inkelas 2019 as an alternative to Autosegmental Phonology. We find that Q-Theory is remarkably similar to Autosegmental Phonology, contra some of Shih and Inkelas’s claims. In particular, Q-Theory does not eschew the association relation, in Q-Theory the tone-bearing unit is the vowel, and Q-Theory and Autosegmental Phonology are equivalent in terms of the constraints they can express. However, this formal analysis clarifies the truly novel contribution of Q-Theory, which is the empirical claim that all segments are tripartite.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

http://direct.mit.edu/ling/article-pdf/52/2/333/1911697/ling_a_00376.pdf

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