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Chapter1.DomainstructureconditionsinVilamovianandEnglish
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government-licensers.Further,theexistenceofsuchwordsasnaacht
withalongstemvowelseemstosuggestthatVilamoviantolerates
super-heavyrhymestructures6.Alternatively
,itmightbeproposedthat
thetwoconsonants[x]and[t]belongtotwoseparateonsetconstitu-
entsseparatedbyanemptynucleus.Inthebriefofthisarticleweshall
notbeabletodecidewhichofthetwopossibilitiesismoreplausible.
Thiswouldcallforintroducingadditionaltheoreticalconstructssuch
asinter-onsetgovernmentwhichrequirealengthydiscussionandmore
detailedevidence.
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Whenweproceedtogroup(7c),anumberofword-internalstruc-
turalconfigurationssurfaceintheexamplesprovided.Intrynkiaor
tąchter,thepresenceofrhymalcomplement-onsetgoverningdomains
hastoberecognized.Theserelationsinvolve[n]and[k]intheformer
exampleand[x]and[t]inthelatter.Branchingonsetstructurescan
alsobeattestedinsideVilamoviandomains,asinśtüklaandbytła.
Theitemscontain[kl]and[tł]sequencesrespectivelywhichshould
berepresentedasbranchingonsetswiththeleft-handsegmentasthe
headofthegoverningrelation.Themostinterestingexamplein(7c)is
prydikśtül<pulpit’becauseitcontainsaconsonantclustercomprising
threemembers:[k],[ę],and[t]whichareobstruents.Thiscomplicates
theirassignmenttobranchingonsetconstituents.Theonlygoverning
domaincanbeestablishedbetweenthefricativeandthefollowingplo-
sive[t].Consequently
,[k]and[ę]willhavetobeseparatedbysome
emptynuclearslot.Wedepictthisstructuralconfigurationin(10).We
shalldisregardthedetailsofsegmentalrepresentations.
6Insuper-heavyrhymes,abranchingnucleusisfollowedbyarhymalcomplement.
Thenon-nuclearpositionmaybeoccupiedbyasonorantorfricativewhosepreferred
placeofarticulationiscoronal(Harris1994:77).