2020
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Joaquim Brandão De Carvalho, « Representation vs derivation: The case for a modular view of phonology », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.b1o5tm
Plurilinear representations and constraint-based derivation have been the main tools used in the last 40 years by autosegmental approaches and OT respectively. It is argued here that the border be-tween representation and derivation depends on another key division in phonological theory: in phonology proper, there are no such things as processes involving feature propagation or delinking; only by virtue of morphophonological alternations, that is of phonology/morphosyntax interaction, may an object be said to changeinto another one. Thus, representational theories better describe core phonology, seen as an au-tonomous module of grammar, while constraint-based models are nec-essary to deal with computation associated with phonology's upper interfaces.