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In English, most phonological phenomena are characterized by the distinction between class 1 and class 2 affixation. The different behaviors of both classes of affixed words are triggered by the differential rank of identity constraints on two distinct O(utput)O(utput)-correspondence relations. The purpose of this paper is to provide a paradigmatic identity-based account of the simplification of /ŋg/ in English. Both members of the phonological paradigms governed by OO-correspondence are available to the phonology at the same time, in fully parallel derivations. This paradigmatic identity-based analysis focuses directly on the identity relation of paradigmatically-related words and thus explicitly demonstrates the real content of the relation between related words. The constraint interaction achieves what serial theory accomplishes, by ordering phonological and morphological rules. Thus it will be argued that this paradigmatic identity-based analysis is an improvement upon the traditional serial or cyclic analysis, obviating the need for intermediate stages of serial or cyclic derivation and providing a unified account of level-ordering and true cyclicity. |
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