Phonological opacity
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Phonological opacity
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Phonological opacity is a phenomenon in phonology. Opacity exists when a phonological rule that exists in a given language appears to be contradicted by the surface structure of words in the language. The term was first defined by Kiparsky in the following way: A phonological rule P, A → B / C _ D , is opaque if one of the following surface structures exists: instance of A in the C _ D environment;
instance of B created by P in an environment other than C _ D ; A common example is the interactio
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2023-11-30T21:32:43Z
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