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Vowel degemination and fast speech rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2020

Marina Nespor
Marina Nespor*
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University of Amsterdam
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In the last two years, two very interesting books about the interaction of phonology and syntax, Selkirk (1984a) and Kaisse (1985), have addressed the problem of characterising fast speech processes and made interesting proposals about the status of fast speech rules (FSRs) and their place in the grammar. Essentially, Kaisse's proposal is that fast speech rules belong to a separate subcomponent of the phonology, which is ordered after the sandhi rules subcomponent: while sandhi rules are sensitive to their syntactic environment, fast speech rules have only phonetic motivation. That is, they operate throughout a string, within as well as across words, independently of its structure (cf. also Rotenberg 1978; Hasegawa 1979).

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Phonology , Volume 4 , May 1987 , pp. 61 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Irene Vogel and Brian Joseph for carefully reading this paper and giving helpful comments and suggestions, Bruce Hayes for important criticisms and suggestions about the main issues of this article, Mauro Scorretti for some interesting discussions on fast speech phenomena, the participants of the 1986 Thessaloniki Linguistics Symposium, in particular Angela Ralli for observations on vowel degemination as well as other aspects of Greek phonology, and Donna Jo Napoli, as well as the participants of the 1986 Z.W.O. Workshop on Phonological Features held in Wassenaar, for interesting comments on an earlier version of part of this paper. Many thanks also to the native speakers of Greek, Italian and American English who were always willing to talk into a tape recorder. For financial support, I wish to thank Z.W.O. for a grant that allowed me to spend part of the Fall 1985 semester in Athens, where the field work on Greek was carried out.

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