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The syllable as a locus for deletion
Feb 3 2008, 3:50 PM EST
It isn’t always clear what role the syllable plays in regards to deletion; for example, although consonant deletion in Finnish seems teleologically motivated to ensure proper syllabification, it is not the unsyllabified consonant that deletes. E.g., in lapsi ‘child, nom. sg.’, lasta ‘child, part. sg.’ the first of three consonants drops, which is presumably not syllabified. Similarly, the first of two word final consonants drop: paistos ‘pie, nom. sg.’, paistoksen ‘pie, gen. sg.’ This phenomenon can be captured with a nonsyllabic rule that refers to the following environment: ___C{C, #}, but this was recognized as a loss of generalization more than three decades ago.
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