Abstract
AbstractSome phonological patterns are imposed only in morphologically derived environments, i.e. those produced by a morphological operation like affixation or reduplication or compounding. This chapter surveys a number of cases of this kind, termed “nonderived environment blocking,” and explores the question of whether they can all be reduced to a single principle. While the canonical case of a stem-final segment alternating in the company of a suffix are easily dealt with by various theories, less canonical examples of derived environment effects are less tractable. This chapter explores the variety of theoretical analyses that have been developed for the range of cases that have been observed, ranging from the older strict cyclity approach to the newer Comparative Markedness, and concludes that none extends to the full range of cases. The chapter concludes by exploring the question of whether morphologically derived environment effects are in fact a unified and distinct phenomenon or whether this apparent phenomenon is better subsumed into the more general category of morphologically conditioned phonology.
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