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Chapter1.DomainstructureconditionsinVilamovianandEnglish
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(1985,1990),Harris(1994),Charette(1991),orCyran(2010)among
others.Thetheorydefinesaphonologicaldomainasasequenceofon-
setsandrhymesheadedbynuclei,thethreeconstructsfunctioningas
phonologicalconstituents.Therepresentationconstitutesamulti-level
hierarchicalstructurewhoseorganizationisdrivenbythemechanisms
oflicensingandgovernment.Botharebinaryasymmetricrelations,
thoughgovernmenthasamorerestrictivecharacter.Governingre-
lationsareuniversallyleft-headedwithinconstituents,whereasin-
ter-constituentgovernmentbetweentherhymalcomplementandthe
followingonsetisright-headed.Thus,phonologicalconstituentscan
bemaximallybinary-branching.Itisnoteworthythattheabilityto
branchisdeterminedinalanguage-specificmanner.Therearesystems
suchasDesanowhosedomainsarerepresentedasCVsequencesof
non-branchingonsetsandrhymes,forinstance.ThisisduetotheDe-
sano-specificparameterconcerningconstituentstructuredisallowing
constituentbranching.Inthefollowingsections,suchsystem-specific
parameterswillbedeterminedforEnglishandVilamovian.Itissig-
nificantthatthephonologicalconstituentsareprojectedintermsof
thegoverningrelationsthatarecontractedbetweenadjacentskeletal
positions.Skeletalslotsthemselvesrepresentphonologicalquantity,
withtwopositionsassociatedtoonemelodystandingforalongseg-
ment.Letusillustrateagovernment-basedrepresentationoftheword
trumpet.
(1)trumpet
O1
x
t
|
x
|
r
N1
R
x
U
|
|
|
m
x
|
O2
x
p
|
R
|
N2
|
x
|
W
O3
R
|
N3
|
x
x
|
t
Thestructurein(1)depictsthattheword-initialconsonants[t]and
[r]areassociatedwithslotsgatheredunderasinglebranchingonsetO
1
sincetheirpositionsareinvolvedinaleft-headedgoverningrelation.
Theestablishmentofthegoverningrelationmanifestsitselfthrough
theexistenceofaphonotacticdomaincomprising[t]and[r].There-
lationoftrans-constituentgovernmentbinds[p]–thegovernor,and
thepreceding[m]–thegovernee,sincethedependentmemberofthe
