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Lexical vs. Post-lexical rules discuss in a short paragraph…
Lexical vs. Post-lexical rules
discuss in a short paragraph (separately for each phenomenon) whether the following processes are best categorized as lexical or post-lexical rules. Justify your answer with several reasons. (NB: You have been provided with links to the full inventory of each language in question because you will need to refer to it in your reasoning.)
a. Liquid Devoicing (French): Liquids devoice after voiceless obstruents.
[Full inventory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phonology; scroll to “Consonants”]
pleut [pl?ø] ‘rains 3.sg.’
prix [p??i] ‘price’
tram [t??am] ‘streetcar’
clair [kl???] ‘light’
cri [k??i] ‘shout’
fleur [fl??] ‘flower’
frais [f???] ‘fresh’
slip [sl?ip] ‘trunks’
b. Velar Softening (English): Nouns and adjectives that end in/k/ ? [s] when adding a suffix that begins with a high, front vowel.
[Full inventory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology; scroll to “Consonants”]
electric [?l?kt??k] electricity [?l?kt??s??i]
iconic [a?k?n?k] iconicity [a?k?n?s??i]
critic [k????k] criticism [k????s?z?m]
c. Enchaînement (French): Consonants in the coda resyllabify into the onset of V-initial syllables.
[Full inventory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phonology; scroll to “Consonants”]
cette chaussette orange une femme anglaise avec une cuillère
[s?t.?o.s?.t?.??~?] [yn.fa.m?~.gl?z] [a.v?.kyn.k?i.j??]
‘this orange sock’ ‘an English woman’ ‘with a spoon’
d. Schwa epenthesis (German): Schwa is inserted between a coronal stop and a coronal obstruent in verbs (The 3rd sg. present morpheme for regular verbs is just [-t]).
[Full inventory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_phonology; scroll to “Vowels”]
arbeit+ t = arbeit-e-t [a?ba?t?t] ‘works 3.sg.’
red+ t = red-e-t [?e:d?t] ‘talks 3.sg.’
vs. schwimm+ t = schwimmt [?v?mt] ‘swims 3.sg.’
lach+ t = lacht [laxt] ‘laughs 3.sg.’
