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Morphophonology and the hierarchical lexicon

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Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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That morphology has to have an interface with both syntax and phonologyis a commonplace in linguistics. Separating phonological and morphologicalinformation results in redundant duplication of information and is bound toresort to unmotivated diacritic annotation of properties relevant at the interfaceswith other levels. This supplies motivation for such approach to grammar inwhich the representational levels of linguistic knowledge are integrated.Such anintegrated model of language questions the autonomy of linguistic modulesand attempts to represent theintricate correlations between the various levelsof linguistic representation directly by assuming a homogeneous architecture.These tenets are embraced by most monostratal theories of grammar. In thisspirit we provide a novel account of anumber of phenomena of Hungarian morphophonologyusing the concept of hierarchical lexicon.

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Trón, V., Rebrus, P. Morphophonology and the hierarchical lexicon. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 48, 101–136 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015643405324

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