... syllable tongue root harmony Kitanemuk Serran Takic affix es affixation Ho round ing harmony stem s acoustics nasal assimilation Chinese Tangut suffix es suffixation diphthong s diphthongization lowering length rhotic harmony retroflex bunching local feature spreading pharyngealization...

...This chapter examines the No Crossing Constraint, constraints on feature spreading, and the application of phonological rules in structures with “long-distance geminates.” McCarthy’s work on nonconcatenative Semitic morphology plays a central role. It shows that known constraints on feature...

... underspecification feature change feature spreading The present volume of contributions is meant to deal with the primitives of phonological theory (traditionally, distinctive features—but also elements and gestures) and their relation to phonetic reality. A major theoretical dichotomy between features...

... interpretability mismatch of values Siloni Tal determiner inflection lexical semantics object marker overriding override possessive computational linguistic application Zeijlstra Hedde aspect construct state nominal CSN head nominalization person possessor tense feature spreading Engelhardt...

... within the C domain, i.e. FinP; (ii) expletive -da/-ta absorbs Nominative case and acts as a defective goal with respect to the ‘low’ subject. On the basis of the feature-spreading model in Ouali (2008), the phasal head C in Cimbrian is taken to ‘KEEP’ its relevant ϕ- and T-features...