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Palatalization effects as a result of articulatory- and perceptually driven mechanisms

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, I have argued for the existence and relevance of auditory representations in phonology. The second goal is to take a closer look at the mechanisms ruling the emergence of contrasts. The alternatives have been closer examined and applied to the Polish data and the conclusion is that the surface contrast emerges as a result of the interplay of many factors, first, constraints reducing articulatory effort, second, constraints favoring large perceptual differences between different contrasting segments, and third, as hypothesized, constraints on the perceptual faithfulness to the underlying representation.

phonology; palatalization; Optimality Theory; functional phonology; perception

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