OT-HELP 2를 사용한 조화 순차주의 검증: 역출혈 불투명성 분석에 있어서의 문제

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Harmonic Serialism(HS) allows the intermediate levels of derivation within the framework of Optimality Theory (McCarthy 2008, 2010). OT-HELP 2 (Staubs et. al. 2010) is a software package for analyzing linguistic data within HS. In this paper, OT-HELP 2 was used to verify whether or not the HS-based analysis provides an adequate explanation for the counter-bleeding opacity. This paper investigated three types of counter-bleeding opaque phenomena occurring in the interactions between stress assignment and vowel insertion (Levantine Arabic), between tensing and consonant deletion (Korean), and between vowel lengthening and consonant deletion (English), respectively. OT-HELP 2 computed the possible patterns of forms derived from inputs with Input, Operation, and Constraint files for each type of opaque phenomenon. No result of the computations showed that HS’s derivational process was able to derive the expected counter-bleeding opaque forms. According to the OT-HEP 2’s computations, the determining cause of HS’s inadequacy is that derivational process is always terminated with a transparent form because there is no case where an opaque form is more harmonic than a transparent counterpart in the final step of derivational process. Accordingly, it is concluded that HS has problems for solution for being verified as a general theory of phonological phenomena.

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