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Chapter1.DomainstructureconditionsinVilamovianandEnglish
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(11)cankner‘centner’
N1
R
x
a
|
|
x
n
|
O
x
k
|
O
x
|
ts
R
R
|
|
N2
O
N3
R
|
N4
O
x
x
|
n
x
|
e
x
|
r
x
Itisimportanttoobservethattheplosive[k]andthefollowingna-
sal[n]maynotformonedomainofabranchingonsetbecauseofthe
complexityrequirement.NoticethatinEnglish,forinstance,noword
beginswitha[kn]sequence.Vilamoviandoeshavesuchword-initial
clusters,asinknaota<knead’butthisdoesnotmeanthattheyshould
besyllabifiedasbranchingonsets.Suchastructureisruledoutby
theso-calledComplexityConditionwhichrequiresthatthepotential
governeeinsucharelationshouldbelesscomplexthanthepoten-
tialgovernor.Withoutgoingintofurtherdetailsofmelodicstructure,
itmustbenotedthat[k]possessesthreeelementsinitssegmental
make-up(i.e.,occlusion,noise,andhightoneH)andthecomplexity
of[n]alsoamountstothreeprimes:occlusion,placeelementAand
nasality
.Hence,anyintra-constituentgovernmentbetween[k]and[n]
isimpossible.Thesegmentshavetobelongtoseparateonsetconstit-
uents,asdepictedin(11).Theconsonantsarephoneticallyadjacent,
whichindicatesthatthenuclearpositionseparatingthemphonologi-
callyneedstobeempty
.Infactthelackofitsphoneticinterpretation
issecuredbytheapplicationofpropergovernment.Morespecifically,
N
2isproperlygovernedbyN
3.Theexistenceofwordssuchascankner
testifiestotheemploymentofthemechanismofpropergovernment
bythesystemofVilamovianinwhichitissimilartoEnglish.Howev-
er,moreconvincingevidencehastobefoundrelatingtotheattested
vowel-zeroalternations.Thedatawehaveaccesstodonotprovide
uswithsuchexamples.Hence,furtherresearchintothisaspectof
Vilamovianphonologyisrequired.
