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....Different affixes or affix classes may induce distinct correspondence relations, which are subject to separate faithfulness constraints. Thus, the English Level 1 Level 2 distinction is attributed to two affix classes that induce distinct correspondence relations (see also Urbanczyk 1996 and Burzio 1997). Benua shows how these principles allow TCT to account for a range of cyclic phenomena while making more restrictive predictions than standard derivational theories. TCT can be illustrated with a familiar example, the derivation of bomb bombing from b#mb . The b is lost in bomb for syllabic ....

....not proceed beyond this initial state, and so the OO faithfulness constraint will remain high ranking. This change is facilitated when the alternating paradigms are less conspicuous to the learner and so more easily ignored # because, for example, the relevant forms are scarce in the primary data (Burzio 1997) or the morphological link between the alternating members of the paradigm is unproductive or non compositional. 5. Application: Word and Root Minimality in Kansai Japanese In this section I will show how Stampean occultation at the level of the paradigm accounts for a requirement on minimal ....

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Burzio, Luigi. 1997. Strength in numbers. Ms., Johns Hopkins University.

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