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Jardine (2016): transformations as correspondence-graph relations #

[Jar16] (Ch. 7) presents a phonological process as a relation between input and output, given by correspondence graphs carved out of GEN by banned-subgraph constraints. This file exercises the Autosegmental.Correspondence substrate on the intervocalic-voicing schema (Jardine's running example): a faithfulness constraint *[p↔p] — forbidding a p that corresponds to a p — admits the voicing correspondence apa ↔ aba and rejects the faithful apa ↔ apa.

Scope #

This demonstrates the constraint mechanism at the correspondence-graph level. The full relation-level result R(CG(φ)) = R_voice additionally requires GEN (CG(Γ), the correspondence graphs built from primitives), which fixes the correspondence structure; and Jardine's output-only markedness *VTV needs the arc-labelled-subgraph refinement (Ch. 7 fn. 7). Both are deferred — see Autosegmental/Correspondence.lean.

Toy alphabet for intervocalic voicing: a vowel a, voiceless p, voiced b.

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    instance Jardine2016.instDecidableEqSeg :
    DecidableEq Seg
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    def Jardine2016.instReprSeg.repr :
    SegStd.Format
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      A correspondence graph over the one alphabet (input and output both Seg).

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        The faithfulness banned subgraph *[pⁱ↔p]: a p corresponding to a p. Forbidding it forces an intervocalic p to change.

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          The voicing correspondence apa ↔ aba: identity positions, the medial p corresponding to a b.

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            The faithful correspondence apa ↔ apa: the medial p stays p.

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              The voicing correspondence is admitted by the *[p↔p] grammar (no p↔p).

              The faithful correspondence is rejected — it contains a p↔p.

              Hence apa ↔ aba lies in the relation presented by the local grammar *[p↔p], witnessed by gVoice ([Jar16] Def. 25).