TY  - JOUR
A1  - Green, Antony Dubach
T1  - The independence of phonology and morphology: The Celtic mutations
JF  - Lingua : international review of general linguistics
N2  - One of the most important insights of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) is that phonological processes can be reduced to the interaction between faithfulness and universal markedness principles. In the most constrained version of the theory, all phonological processes should be thus reducible. This hypothesis is tested by alternations that appear to be phonological but in which universal markedness principles appear to play no role. If we are to pursue the claim that all phonological processes depend on the interaction of faithfulness and markedness, then processes that are not dependent on markedness must lie outside phonology. In this paper I will examine a group of such processes, the initial consonant mutations of the Celtic languages, and argue that they belong entirely to the morphology of the languages, not the phonology.
KW  - Celtic mutations
KW  - word-based morphology
KW  - optimality theory
Y1  - 2006
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2004.09.002
SN  - 0024-3841
VL  - 116
IS  - 11
SP  - 1946
EP  - 1985
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -