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It is argued that compensatory vowel vocalization and the rule of Depalatalization in Slovak crucially require reference to a representation at the skeletal tier. In the former case, a consonant deletes, and simultaneously a floating melodic segment is vocalized as a short vowel. In the latter case, adacency must be established between consonants across a floating segment. Both of these facts can be straightforwardly accounted for in the X-skeletal theory but not in the moraic framework, regardless of the variant of the moraic theory.
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I would like to express my gratitude to the Graduate School of Ohio State University for offering me a visiting appointment during which this article was written. I also thank L'ubomir D'urovič, Nataša D'urovičova, Ábel Král' and Martin Votruba for providing me the data as well as professional judgement (in the case of L'ubomir D'urovič, Ábel Král and Martin Votruba) for my analysis of the Slovak facts. I am also very grateful to Michael Kenstowicz and the reviewers of this journal who have made me rethink and better motivate my line of argumentation.
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Rubach, J. Skeletal versus moraic representations in Slovak. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 11, 625–653 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00993015
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