Another look at velar deletion in Turkish, with special ... - Linguistics
Another look at velar deletion in Turkish, with special ... - Linguistics
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(14)<br />
Underly<strong>in</strong>g<br />
represent<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(nom<strong>in</strong><strong>at</strong>ive) Loc<strong>at</strong>ive (/-DA/) Accus<strong>at</strong>ive (/-I/) gloss<br />
/nesr/ [ne.sir] [ne.sir.de] [nes.ri] ‘prose’<br />
/film/ [fi.lim] [fi.lim.de] [fil.mi] ‘film’<br />
/kajp/ [ka.jɯp] [ka.jɯp.te] [kaj.bɯ] ‘loss’<br />
/keʃf/ [ke.ʃif] [ke.ʃif.te] [keʃ.fi] ‘explor<strong>at</strong>ion’<br />
/kutB/ [ku.tup] [ku.tup.ta] [kut.bu] ‘pole’<br />
Epenthesis can cre<strong>at</strong>e VKV environments. Whether <strong>velar</strong> <strong>deletion</strong> applies <strong>in</strong> these is a<br />
test of whether the phonologically derived environment condition is applicable to <strong>Turkish</strong><br />
<strong>velar</strong> <strong>deletion</strong>. The answer is mixed: epenthetic vowels trigger <strong>velar</strong> <strong>deletion</strong> when<br />
epenthesis itself applies <strong>in</strong> a morphologically derived environment, but not when epenthesis<br />
splits up consonants belong<strong>in</strong>g to the same root.<br />
As seen <strong>in</strong> (15), epenthesis <strong>in</strong>to root consonant clusters does not trigger <strong>velar</strong> <strong>deletion</strong>,<br />
even though the result<strong>in</strong>g <strong>velar</strong> is <strong>in</strong>tervocalic and the environment is derived, not<br />
underly<strong>in</strong>g: 7<br />
(15)<br />
Underly<strong>in</strong>g<br />
represent<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(nom<strong>in</strong><strong>at</strong>ive) Loc<strong>at</strong>ive (/-DA/) Accus<strong>at</strong>ive (/-I/) gloss<br />
/akl/ [a.kɯl] [a.kɯl.da] [ak.lɯ] ‘<strong>in</strong>telligence’<br />
akıl akılda aklı<br />
/aks/ [a.kis] [a.kis.te] [ak.si] ‘reflection’<br />
akis akiste aksi<br />
/fikr/ [fi.kir] [fi.kir.de] [fik.ri] ‘idea’<br />
fikir fikirde fikri<br />
/hükm/ [hy.kym] [hy.kym.ler] [hyk.my] ‘judgment’<br />
hüküm hükümde hükmü<br />
By contrast, epenthesis does trigger <strong>velar</strong> <strong>deletion</strong> when it applies as a result of the<br />
suffix<strong>at</strong>ion of consonantal suffixes to consonant-f<strong>in</strong>al stems, as seen <strong>in</strong> (16).<br />
(16)<br />
Underly<strong>in</strong>g<br />
represent<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(nom<strong>in</strong><strong>at</strong>ive) 1sg.possessive<br />
(/-m/)<br />
(cf. accus<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
(/-I/))<br />
gloss<br />
/bebek/ [be.bek] [be.be.im] [be.be.i] ‘baby’<br />
bebek bebeğim bebeği<br />
7 For arguments th<strong>at</strong> this vowel is epenthetic, see Hankamer (this volume).<br />
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