Loan Words in Turkish Vowel Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach

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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Quinn
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-16T13:18:02Z
dc.date.available2023-03-16T13:18:02Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-03-16
dc.description.abstractTurkish has two patterns for backness vowel harmony: with native stems and loanwords. Native stems use the first vowel of the word as the trigger, causing all subsequent vowels to match its value for backness. Loanwords can be disharmonic for backness within the root, and suffixes use the root-final vowel as the trigger. This research provides an account for this pattern of disharmony, demonstrating how a root faithfulness constraint in Optimality Theory, can maintain the identity of all root vowels in loanwords. Therefore, the suffix uses only the root-final vowel as its trigger. A corpus of native and loanwords in Turkish was compiled and their forms were analyzed with the same set of constraints. While native stems can be accounted for by syllable-initial identity constraints, the wrong output candidate is selected in loanwords. When a constraint on root identity is used, the correct output candidate was selected in both loanwords and native words. This supports theories that the roots of Turkish are static, with alternations only occurring within the suffixes of the language. Further research will analyze neutral vowels and other disharmonic native stems to determine if root faithfulness can account for their forms as well.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14818
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectOptimality Theoryen_US
dc.subjectVowel Harmonyen_US
dc.subjectLoan Wordsen_US
dc.subjectTurkishen_US
dc.titleLoan Words in Turkish Vowel Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approachen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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