Open AccessAttenuated Spreading in Sanskrit Retroflex Harmony
Author(s) -
Kevin M. Ryan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
linguistic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1530-9150
pISSN - 0024-3892
DOI - 10.1162/ling_a_00244
Subject(s) - sanskrit , harmony (color) , prefix , phonotactics , linguistics , grammar , morpheme , root (linguistics) , mathematics , philosophy , computer science , phonology , art , visual arts
Drawing on a two-million-word corpus of Sanskrit, the article documents and analyzes two previously unrecognized generalizations concerning the morphoprosodic conditioning of retroflex spreading (nati). Both reveal harmony to be attenuated across the left boundaries of roots (i.e., between a prefix and a root or between members of a compound), in the sense that while harmony applies across these b...
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