caa a22 4500 475781961 CHVBK 20180406123647.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006342918830 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006342918830 McCarthy John Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 01003, Amherst, MA aut The Prosody Of Phase In Rotuman [Elektronische Daten] [John McCarthy] The "phase” alternation in Rotuman isremarkable (and has attracted a good dealof previous attention) for two reasons.First, the shape differences between phasesare quite diverse, involving resyllabification,deletion, umlaut, and metathesis.Second, the phase alternation produces prosodicstructures that are otherwiseunattested in this language, replacing simple(C)V syllables with closed anddiphthongal ones. In this article,I argue that Optimality Theory (Prince andSmolensky 1993) helps to make sense ofboth these observations. I also go on touse these results to support some claimsabout the nature of templates andprosodic circumscription in the theory of ProsodicMorphology (McCarthy andPrince 1986). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/1(2000-02-01), 147-197 0167-806X 18:1<147 2000 18 11049 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006342918830 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006342918830 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McCarthy John Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 01003, Amherst, MA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/1(2000-02-01), 147-197 0167-806X 18:1<147 2000 18 11049 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer