An Aspect of Geminate Formation in Pulaar

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study focuses on geminate formation through three different types of assimilation in Pulaar. The geminate formation is motivated in order to avoid the unallowable medial consonant clusters, which are created by morpheme concatenation. Progressive assimilation is explained by invoking the preservation of the marked feature [-ant] over the less marked [+ant] of the coronal place feature. Regressive assimilation is accounted for by adopting the asymmetry between onset and coda position with respect to the realization of features. The bi-directional reciprocal assimilation is analyzed by using the constraints employed for two uni-directional assimilation types in the language. These three types of assimilation in Pulaar, which must be explained by different rules and their ordering in rule-based theoretical framework, can be explained by a unified constraint ranking.

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