Marking and the Free Beat Condition in Manam Stress
John Frampton
January 2025
 

Buckley (1998) ``Alignment in Manam Stress'', makes a convincing case that the RBG (rule-based grammar) analysis of Halle and Kenstowicz (1991) is defective in various ways and works out an OT (Optimality Theory) analysis which addresses the defects in that work. It is offered as evidence of the superiority of OT grammar. The point of this article is to give an RBG analysis of Manam word stress and to point out some defects in the OT analysis. There may be an argument that OT grammar is superior to RBG, but the Manam stress system does not provide that argument.
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Reference: lingbuzz/008692
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keywords: manam, rule-based phonology, rbg, ot, transformational phonology, focused delimiter insertion, phonology
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