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Positional Faithfulness

Positional Faithfulness is a constraint framework in Optimality Theory that penalizes faithfulness violations more heavily at specific prosodically defined positions within a word, thereby distinguishing itself from general faithfulness constraints by making violation severity dependent on positional prominence.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Positional faithfulness, positional neutralisation and Shona vowel harmony

Jill N. Beckman · Phonology · 1997 · 617 citations

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Positional Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation in Optimality Theory

Linda Lombardi · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 1999 · 161 citations

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Positional faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar

Miranda K. McCarvel, Aaron Kaplan · Journal of Linguistics · 2018 · 104 citations

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An analysis of stress-dependent harmony in Servigliano

Joan Mascaró · Probus · 2011 · 86 citations

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Lexical Category and Phonological Contrast

Jennifer L. Smith · 2001 · 65 citations

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Authors

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  1. JL
    Jennifer L. Smith

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    3 publications · 104 citations

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  2. JN
    Jill N. Beckman

    University of Iowa, United States

    3 publications · 658 citations

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  3. KE
    Katherine E. Shaw

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  4. LB
    Luigi Burzio

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  5. KD
    Katherine Demuth

    Macquarie University, Australia

    1 publications · 30 citations

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Institutions

15

  1. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    697 citations

  2. State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    42 citations

  3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    64 citations

  4. Bundeskriminalamt

    Wiesbaden, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    29 citations

  5. Université Lumière Lyon 2

    Lyon, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

  6. John Brown University

    Siloam Springs, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

  7. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    64 citations

  8. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    208 citations

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  1. Phonology

    3 publications · 668 citations

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  2. Probus

    2 publications · 105 citations

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  4. Lingua

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  5. Ghana Journal of Linguistics

    1 publications · 11 citations

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