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Chapter1.DomainstructureconditionsinVilamovianandEnglish
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nuclearslotwhichmaynotacquireanymelodiccontent.Inorderto
establishtheoperationofpropergovernmentinaparticularsystem,we
needtoexaminetheexistingvowel-zeroalternations,asexemplifiedby
thePolishwordspiesandpsa<dog,nom./gen.’.
Anotherissuethatdeterminestheinternalorganizationofsegments
withinphonologicaldomainsrelatestoconsonantclusters.Morespe-
cifically
,word-medialsequencesoftwoconsonantscanbeeithergath-
eredwithinasinglebranchingonset,asinthecaseof[gr]inagree,or
constituteatrans-constituentdomainasinthecaseof[nd]intrendy.
Initemssuchasentry,forinstance,bothoftheabovementionedconfigu-
rationswillbeattested.InthePolishwordarktyczny<arctic’,ontheother
hand,[rk]involvestrans-constituentgovernmentbetweentherhymal
complement[r]andthefollowingonset[k],thoughthe[kt]sequence
issyllabifiedastwoindependentonsetsseparatedbyanemptynuclear
positionsince[k]and[t]maynotformabranchingonsetstructure.
ThePolishexamplerevealsaverysignificantaspectofintra-domain
relationsofgovernment.Namely
,eachgoverningrelationcontractedbe-
tweennon-nuclearpointshastobegovernment-licensed,orauthorized,
bythefollowingnucleus(Charette1990).Hence,weinferthatthe[rk]
clusterwhichconstitutesaright-headedgoverningdomainhasbeengov-
ernment-licensedbytheemptynucleusseparating[k]and[t].However,
ithastoberememberedthattheabilityofemptynucleitoperformthe
functionofgovernment-licensersisalanguage-specificproperty
.Inwhat
follows,ourattentionwillbefocusedontheEnglish-specificfeaturesof
domainstructure.Subsequently
,EnglishwillbecomparedtoVilamovian.
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InordertoexaminetheEnglish-specificpropertiesofdomainstructure,
weshallhavetolookattheavailableword-initial,medial,andfinalcon-
sonantclustersaswellasthedistributionofemptynuclearpoints.These
aspectsofdomainstructureareillustratedbythedatalistedin(4)below
.
(4)
a.
ask
time
try
stay
spray
b.
ball
tent
dusk
box
change
c.
trendy
entry
d.
separate
family
empty
chamber
