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<div class=""><font size="3" style="font-style: normal;" class="">Hi Adam, </font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="3" class="">You ask about morphosyntax, and there is indeed analogous discussion about the uniqueness of solutions in feature systems. There have been suggestions that, for instance, PLURAL can be a value of GENDER (in Cushitic), that
PERSON is part of the GENDER system (Archi), that NUMBER is part of PERSON (French), and discussion about whether the Russian ADNUMERATIVE is a value of CASE or of NUMBER. I discuss each of these in <i class="">Features</i>, chap 8, and suggest that in each
of these specific instances there is an analysis which is supported by converging arguments (I get off the fence). In brief, a value belongs <span style="font-style: normal; caret-color: rgb(40, 39, 40);" class="">to just one</span> feature: PLURAL is a value
of NUMBER in Cushitic, PERSON is a distinct feature in Archi and French, and the Russian ADNUMERATIVE is part of the CASE system. There are also debates about concurrent vs non-concurrent feature systems; for that see, for instance, Round & Corbett (2017)
on Kayardild TAM, and Fedden & Corbett (2017) on gender and classifiers in concurrent systems. The last reference fits your bill best, in that we argue there for ‘in-between’ instances (systems that overlap, to measurable degrees). Hope that helps, Best, Grev</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="3" style="font-style: normal;" class="">References:</font></div>
<div class=""><font size="3" class="">Greville G. <span style="font-style: normal; caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class="">Corbett. </span><span style="font-style: normal; caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class="">2012. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class=""><i class="">Features</i></span><span style="font-style: normal; caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class="">.
Cambridge: CUP.</span></font></div>
<div class=""><font size="3" class="">Sebastian Fedden & Greville G. Corbett. 2017. Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems Refining the typology of nominal classification.<i class=""> Glossa: a journal of general linguistics</i> 2(1): 34. 1–47. <span class="span-citation" style="font-style: normal;">DOI: </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.177" style="font-style: normal;" class="">http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.177</a>
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<div class=""><font size="3" class="">Erich R. Round and Greville G. Corbett. The theory of feature systems: One feature versus two for Kayardild tense-aspect-mood. <i class="">Morphology</i> 27.21-75.</font></div>
<div class=""><font size="3" class=""><a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-016-9294-3" style="text-align: justify;" class="">http://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-016-9294-3</a><span style="text-align: justify;" class="">. [open access]</span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="3" style="font-style: normal;" class="">Greville Corbett, Surrey Morphology Group</font></div>
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<div class="">On 4 Feb 2021, at 11:12, TALLMAN Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr" class="">Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I'm looking for papers on the notion of non-uniqueness in phonology (or morphosyntax if applicable). I have three so far (Chao, Hockett, and Schane).</div>
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<div class="">I'm particularly interesting in non-uniqueness in the domain of the description of suprasegmentals - like when we have a system that seems to mix tone and (other types of) prominence whether the system should be described as tonal with a stress
mapped to it or vice versa. Phonologists discuss the issue as if there is an obvious unique best way of describing such relations in all cases. But I think that's probably false and it choosing one over the other just amounts to an expositional decision -
some of the discussion in Tallman and Elias-Ulloa (2020) point in this direction in Chácobo.</div>
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<div class="">There's also the related issue of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class=""><b class="">when</b></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the acoustic correlates of some phonological category are organized in such a way as to
genuinely merit the designation "tone". Phonologists seem to assume that this issue is trivial or obvious - again, I think this is probably false (the notion is more open ended than is recognized) regardless of the phonological evidence that can be rallied
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<div class="">@Article{chao:1934:phonemes,<br class="">
title = {The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems},<br class="">
author = {Yuen Ren Chao},<br class="">
journal = {Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica},<br class="">
year = {1934},<br class="">
volume = {4},<br class="">
number = {},<br class="">
pages = {363-397},<br class="">
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<div class="">@incollection{hockett:1963:universals,<br class="">
Author = {Charles F. Hockett},<br class="">
Booktitle = {Universals of language (Volume 2)}, <br class="">
Editor = {Joseph H. Greenberg},<br class="">
Pages = {1-29},<br class="">
Publisher = {MIT Press},<br class="">
Address = {Cambridge, MA},<br class="">
Title = {The problem of universals in language},<br class="">
Year = {1963},<br class="">
Edition = {}}</div>
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<div class="">@Article{schane:1968:nonuniqueness,<br class="">
title = {On the non-uniqueness of phonological representations},<br class="">
author = {Sanford A. Schane},<br class="">
journal = {Language},<br class="">
year = {1968},<br class="">
volume = {44},<br class="">
number = {4},<br class="">
pages = {363-397},<br class="">
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<div class="">@Article{tallman:eliasulloa:2020:acoustics,<br class="">
title = {The acoustic correlates of stress and tone in Chácobo (Pano)},<br class="">
author = {Adam J.R. Tallman},<br class="">
journal = {The acoustic correlates of stress and tone in Chácobo (Pano): A production study},<br class="">
editor = {Adam J.R. Tallman and José Élias-Ulloa},<br class="">
year = {2020},<br class="">
volume = {147},<br class="">
number = {4},<br class="">
pages = {3028},<br class="">
doi = {<a href="https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001014" class="">https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001014</a>},<br class="">
%urldate = {2019-07-04},<br class="">
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