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The initial CV

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Across all structuralist and generative incarnations, interface theories are based on unwarranted diacritics: #, ω etc. Lowenstamm’s initial CV has paved the way for a non-diacritic interface theory: the carrier of morpho-syntactic information in phonology is syllabic space. The article shows that the initial CV is able to kill three birds with one stone (strength of initial consonants, initial cluster restrictions, syncope of first vowels). It is then argued for the idea that carriers of morpho-syntactic information in phonology reduce to syllabic space (there are no other carriers). Finally, it is shown that boundary information does not belong to the same lexical entry as morphemic information: the initial CV for example is not present in the lexical entry of the word it precedes.

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  • Affiliations: 1: Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, CNRS 7320

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    2003 “Templatic Architecture.”Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes32: 157–168. doi: 10.4000/rlv.489
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    1996 “CV as the Only Syllable Type.” In Current Trends in Phonology. Models and Methods, vol. 2, ed. by Jacques Durand , and Bernard Laks , 419–441. Salford, Manchester: ESRI. Available atsites.unice.fr/scheer.
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  18. Luo, Xiaoliang
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  34. Scheer, Tobias , and Markéta Ziková
    2010 “The Coda Mirror v2.”Acta Linguistica Hungarica57 (4): 411–431. doi: 10.1556/ALing.57.2010.4.4
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  35. Ségéral, Philippe
    2000 “Théorie de l’apophonie et organisation des schèmes en sémitique.” In Research in Afroasiatic Grammar, ed. by Jacqueline Lecarme , Jean Lowenstamm , and Ur Shlonsky , 263–299. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Available atsites.unice.fr/scheer. doi: 10.1075/cilt.202.13seg
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    2001 “La Coda-Miroir.” Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris96: 107–152. Available atsites.unice.fr/scheer. doi: 10.2143/BSL.96.1.503739
     https://doi.org/10.2143/BSL.96.1.503739 [Google Scholar]
  37. 2008a “Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition.” In Lenition and Fortition, ed. by Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho , Tobias Scheer , and Philippe Ségéral , 131–172. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Available atsites.unice.fr/scheer.
     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
  39. Seigneur-Froli, Delphine
    2006 Le Statut phonologique du début de mot grec. Lénitions consonantiques et libertés phonotactiques initiales dans la diachronie de la langue commune et dans le dialecte de Lesbos. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nice. Available atsites.unice.fr/scheer.
     [Google Scholar]

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