On Silent Markedness

TY - CHAP

T1 - On Silent Markedness

AU - Van Oostendorp, M.

PY - 2017/11/1

Y1 - 2017/11/1

N2 - Empty categories – positions in phonological representations that have no direct phonetic counterpart – are (still) controversial in phonological theory. In this paper we give the main arguments for assuming such positions and we furthermore establish a markedness hierarchy for empty positions: some of them are stronger (‘more marked’) than others, and we can derive this from a combination of Element Theory and Turbidity Theory. We illustrate our point with Italian and Dutch dialects, and point out that the phonological hierarchy of empty positions may correspond to a hierarchy of syntactic positions

AB - Empty categories – positions in phonological representations that have no direct phonetic counterpart – are (still) controversial in phonological theory. In this paper we give the main arguments for assuming such positions and we furthermore establish a markedness hierarchy for empty positions: some of them are stronger (‘more marked’) than others, and we can derive this from a combination of Element Theory and Turbidity Theory. We illustrate our point with Italian and Dutch dialects, and point out that the phonological hierarchy of empty positions may correspond to a hierarchy of syntactic positions

M3 - Chapter

SP - 101

EP - 120

BT - Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology

A2 - Samuels, Bridget

PB - John Benjamins Publishing

CY - Amsterdam

ER -