What is it about?
The article addresses the issue of vowel nasalisation in Haitian and accounts for the blocking of this process after the loss of post-vocalic R. It also proposes a phonological analysis of the allomorphy that the post-nominal definite article displays.
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Why is it important?
The article provides new insights into the process of nasal assimilation and its blocking after the loss of postvocalic R, as well as the allomorphy that the definite article displays. These phenomena are analyzed entirely phonologically, without any recourse to allomorphy or to any language specific constraint. The paper offers an alternative to standard analyses, including those stated within the Optimality Theoretic framework.
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Writing this article with Shanti Ulfsbjorninn was a great pleasure. We have had long standing collaborations on various languages and phenomena. The issues addressed in this paper, including opacity and allomorphy, are central in phonological theory.
Dr Mohamed Lahrouchi
CNRS - UMR SFL
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This page is a summary of: Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!, Linguistic Inquiry, March 2022, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00469.
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