Results of Applying Recursive Constraint Demotion to Gurindji.txt

4-23-2019, 1:02 p.m.

OTSoft 2.5, release date 1/17/2017

1. Result

A ranking was found that generates the correct outputs.

Stratum | Constraint Name | Abbreviation
Stratum #1 | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid
| *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal
| *NCV~ | *NCV~
| *k~ | *k~
| Max oral stop | Max oral stop
Stratum #2 | Max nasal stop | Max nasal stop
Stratum #3 | *Nasalized | *Nasalized
Stratum #4 | Max(nasal) in vocoids | Max(nasal) in vocoids

2. Tableaux

/a~/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *NCV~ | *k~ | Max oral stop | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ a |  |  |  |  |

*

a~ |  |  |  |  |  |  | *! |

/ama/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *NCV~ | *k~ | Max oral stop | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ ama |  |  |  |  |

a~ma |  |  |  |  |  |  | *! |

/amba/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *NCV~ | *k~ | Max oral stop | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ a~mba |  |  |  |  |

*

a~mba~ |  |  |  |  |  |  | **! |
aba |  |  |  |  |  | *! |  |
ama |  |  |  |  | *! |  |  |
amba |  | *! |  |  |  |  |  |
amba~ |  | *! |  |  |  |  | * |

/kawa-mpa/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *NCV~ | *k~ | Max oral stop | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ ka~w~a~mpa |  |  |  |  |

***

k~a~w~a~mpa |  |  |  | *! |  |  | *** |
kawa-mpa |  | *! |  |  |  |  |  |
kawa~mpa | *! |  |  |  |  |  | * |
kaw~a~mpa | *! |  |  |  |  |  | ** |

/kankawa-mpa/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *NCV~ | *k~ | Max oral stop | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ ka~nkawapa |  |  |  |  |

*

ka~nk~a~w~a~mpa |  |  |  | *! |  |  | ***** |
ka~nka~w~a~mpa |  |  | *! |  |  |  | **** |
ka~nkawampa |  | *! |  |  |  |  | * |
ka~nkaw~a~mpa | *! |  |  |  |  |  | *** |

/wampa-nta-nka/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *NCV~ | *k~ | Max oral stop | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ w~a~mpata~nka |  |  |  |  |

*

***

wapa~ntaka |  |  |  |  |  | **! | * |
wapata~nka |  |  |  |  |  | **! | * |
w~a~mpataka |  |  |  |  |  | **! | ** |
wapataka |  |  |  |  |  | **!* |  |
w~a~mpa~ntaka |  |  | *! |  |  | * | * |
wapa~nta~nka |  |  | *! |  |  | * | ** |
w~a~mpa~nta~nka |  |  | *!* |  |  |  | **** |

3. Status of Proposed Constraints: Necessary or Unnecessary

Constraint | Status
*Nasalized | Necessary
Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | Necessary
*Oral voicoid before coda nasal | Necessary
*NCV~ | Necessary
*k~ | Necessary
Max nasal stop | Necessary
Max oral stop | Necessary
Max(nasal) in vocoids | Not necessary (but included to show Faithfulness violations of a winning candidate)

4. Ranking Arguments, based on the Fusional Reduction Algorithm

This run sought to obtain the Skeletal Basis, intended to keep each final ranking argument as pithy as possible.

The final rankings obtained are as follows:

Max oral stop >> *Nasalized |
*Nasalized >> Max(nasal) in vocoids |
Max nasal stop >> *Nasalized |
*NCV~ >> Max nasal stop |
*Oral voicoid before coda nasal >> *Nasalized |
Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid >> *Nasalized |

5. Mini-Tableaux

The following small tableaux may be useful in presenting ranking arguments. They include all winner-rival comparisons in which there is just one winner-preferring constraint and at least one loser-preferring constraint. Constraints not violated by either candidate are omitted.

/a~/: | *Nasalized | Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞ a |

*

a~ | * |

/amba/: | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *Nasalized
☞ a~mba |

*

amba | * |

/amba/: | Max oral stop | *Nasalized
☞ a~mba |

*

ama | * |

/amba/: | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ a~mba |

*

aba | * |

/kawa-mpa/: | *Oral voicoid before coda nasal | *Nasalized
☞ ka~w~a~mpa |

***

kawa-mpa | * |

/kawa-mpa/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Nasalized
☞ ka~w~a~mpa |

***

kawa~mpa | * | *

/kawa-mpa/: | Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid | *Nasalized
☞ ka~w~a~mpa |

***

kaw~a~mpa | * | **

/wampa-nta-nka/: | *NCV~ | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ w~a~mpata~nka |

*

***

wapa~nta~nka | * | * | **

/wampa-nta-nka/: | *NCV~ | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ w~a~mpata~nka |

*

***

w~a~mpa~ntaka | * | * | *

/wampa-nta-nka/: | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ w~a~mpata~nka | *

***

w~a~mpataka | ** | **

/wampa-nta-nka/: | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ w~a~mpata~nka | *

***

wapa~ntaka | ** | *

/wampa-nta-nka/: | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ w~a~mpata~nka | *

***

wapata~nka | ** | *

/wampa-nta-nka/: | Max nasal stop | *Nasalized
☞ w~a~mpata~nka | *

***

wapataka | ** * |