A rule ordering paradox in Hare

Recent changes in Hare, an Athapaskan language of the lower Mackenzie River Valley, require that a rule of epenthesis be ordered in two places in the grammar. The original rule is ordered before a rule of vowel raising. In the innovative dialect of Hare, part of the environment for this epenthesis r...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
Main Author: Rice, Keren
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1980
Subjects:
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics
Mackenzie River
Mackenzie river
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100009154
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008413100009154
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Summary:Recent changes in Hare, an Athapaskan language of the lower Mackenzie River Valley, require that a rule of epenthesis be ordered in two places in the grammar. The original rule is ordered before a rule of vowel raising. In the innovative dialect of Hare, part of the environment for this epenthesis rule is revised and it must be ordered after the raising rule.

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