Domain Specificity and Vata ATR Spreading

Abstract

Long-distance spreading processes like vowel harmony are typically restricted to a particular (prosodic or morphological) domain. Assimilation processes that apply specifically at the juncture between two domains are also attested (Selkirk, 1980; Nespor and Vogel, 1986). Within Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky, 1993/2004), domain-specificity has