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On the Need for Negative Constraints and Repair: Consonant Mutation in Setswana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Darlene Lacharité
Darlene Lacharité*
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Université Laval
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I argue here for the necessity of negative constraints, specifically the claim in (1). This position contrasts with that taken by Declarative Phonology (Scobbie 1992; this volume) and with the view that positive and negative constraints are equivalent (Itô 1988:32).

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 38 , special_issue 2: Special Issue: Constraint-Based Theories in Multilinear Phonology , June 1993 , pp. 257 - 278
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1993

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