Correspondence and Compositionality: The Ga-gyo Variation in Japanese Phonology

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Abstract This chapter is a contribution to the study of surface-to-surface, or output-output, correspondence constraints in Optimality Theory (see McCarthy and Prince, 1995 for an authoritative statement of the original proposal, as well as numerous other works cited there). The particular question to be investigated concerns the tension between two widely shared theoretical assumptions about the computation of phonological form, which, taken together, seem to lead to a contradiction. First, there is the central tenet of OT summarized in (1): phonological constraints are constraints on outputs.

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