Abstract

We have said that the phonological component is an ordered block of all of the phonological rules of the language. With this conception of the way the rules are organised, we need to look in a little more detail at the way in which rules apply, and at the effects of rules upon one another, that is, at rule interaction. Let us look again at the Russian data presented in Chapter 5: We said that this data exemplifies a rule of Voicing Assimilation (VA). That rule expresses the generalisation that all of the obstruents in a sequence of obstruents assimilate in voicing to the final obstruent. Another rule of Word-Final Devoicing (W-FD) operates on obstruents, as in /sad/ (‘garden’), which is [sat] in the nominative singular, but [sada] in the genitive singular. Other examples are nominative singular/dative singular pairs like [xlep] / [xlebu] (‘bread’), [storoJ]/[storo3u] (‘guard’), [rok]/[rogu] (‘horn’), and nominative /genitive pairs like [ras]/[raza] (‘time’).

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