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Chapter1
Domainstructureconditions
inVilamovianandEnglish
AnnaBloch-Rozmej
JohnPaulIICatholicUniversityofLublin
ThearticlepresentsacontrastiveanalysisofdomainstructureconditionsinEnglish
andVilamovian.Thesystemsofthetwolanguagesareexpectedtoexhibitsimilartraits
sincetheybelongtothesameWestGermanicfamily
.Theproblemofdomainstructure
willbediscussedwithinthemodelofGovernmentPhonology
.Weshallidentifytypes
ofconstituentsallowedbyeitherofthelanguagesandproposestructuralconfigurations
underlyingthemanifestationofconsonantclustersoccurringbothatdomainedges
andinsidephonologicaldomains.Further,system-specificpropertiesofemptynuclei
willbeindicated.Thefinalsectionwillsummarizeboththesimilaritiesanddiferences
concerningdomainstructureinEnglishandVilamovian.
Keywords:domainstructure,constituents,emptynuclei,contrastiveanalysis
101Introduction
Thisarticlewillfocusontheproblemofdomainstructurein
EnglishandVilamovianperceivedthroughtheopticofGovernment
Phonology
.BothlanguagesbelongtotheWestGermanicfamilyand
wepredictthatinterestingparallelscanbeobservedasregardsthe
organizationofthelanguages’phonologicalsystems.Acomparative
surveywewishtoproposeismeanttorevealthatthoughterritorially
distant,EnglishandVilamovianmayexhibitverysimilarphonological
characteristics.Theissueofdomainstructurehasbeenchosenassub-
jectofinvestigationsincedataconcerningthisaspectofVilamovian