The primary purpose of this study is to specify the structural characteristics
of the phonological representations of Spokane lexemes which are relevant for the
rules of the morphology and the rules of the phonology. In order to reveal the
complexity of the issue of structure, it is necessary to examine three sets of data:
non-compound forms, compound forms, and structurally reanalyzed forms. These
data provide evidence that the phonological representation of each lexeme
includes specifications for both form and structure.
Framed within the Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology of Beard (1987,
1993, 1995), this study establishes that certain morphological spelling operations
necessarily refer to a specific sub-string of the phonological representation which
cannot be isolated phonologically. The phonological representations of Spokane
lexemes are, therefore, analyzed as composite structures. As such, the
phonological representations of non-compounds possess (at least potentially)
complex morphological structure which includes the notions Root and Stem, while
those of compounds possess additional specifications for structure based on the
fact that each comprises two distinct Stems. Conversely, the structurally
reanalyzed forms provide evidence that historically complex structure has been
reduced to simplex form. Structurally reanalyzed forms possess morphological
structures which are identical to that of the non-compound but which are distinct
from that of their historically related forms.
This study also establishes that the structural characteristics of a lexeme’s
phonological representation remain salient for the phonology. It is demonstrated
that the domains of the phonological representation to which the phonology
attends are isomorphic with the domains of the phonological representation which
emerge from the Morphological Spelling component (at least at the lowest level of
structure). I utilize the facts of primary stress assignment, as well as the facts of
retraction and nasal shift, to provide evidence for such phonological structures
and. further, to specify the parameters of primary stress assignment in Spokane. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/9805 |
| Date | 01 August 2018 |
| Creators | Black, Deirdre Jean |
| Contributors | Carlson, Barry F. |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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