Abundant violations of the Sonority Sequencing Generalization in Polish are studied from the perspective of prosodic phonology. We argue that word-initial and non-word-initial extrasyllabic consonants play distinct roles in the operation of phonological rules. We further claim that they are integrated prosodically by linking to the phonological word node and that this is done at different stages of derivation. Transparency of extrasyllabic consonants is also investigated.
We are indebted to Michael Kenstowicz for his enlightening criticism and valuable suggestions as to the organization of this article. We are also grateful to the three anonymous reviewers for their comments that have led to the improvement of both the content and the form of this study.
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This article was written as part of research programme Lett 88/9, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Jerzy Rubach would like to express his gratitude to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO for a grant that enabled him to spend a period of two months in the Department of General Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam where the research for this article was conducted.
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Rubach, J., Booij, G.E. Edge of constituent effects in Polish. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 8, 427–463 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00135620
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