Interactions between Syncope and /nt/ Realizations in English

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study observes the realizations of syncope and the medial /nt/ in English and how the two optional processes interact in one prosodic word. The ordering of the processes looks like mutual bleeding, but when the t-deletion in the medial /nt/ occurs first, and syncope follows, syncope does not apply even though the syncope context exists as a result of the t-deletion. It is dubbed underapplication or not surface-true opacity case. The issues we have to deal with in this study are as follows. Can we account for two different outputs for each process from one prosodic word? How can we deal with the underapplication of syncope? How can we filter out an output that undergoes two optional processes simultaneously? How can we expound the data containing other types of NCs and vowels with the newly proposed constraint ranking? The study argues that a conjoined constraint ranking can select two optimal output forms for each process while edging out an output in which two processes occur. The conjunctive constraint can also account for the other data if we slightly modify the conjoined constraint ranking.

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