Pausal Phonology and Morpheme Realization

Revised December 2009 Classical Arabic has complex phonological alternations affecting words in utterance-final position, traditionally called pause . All pausal forms end in a heavy syllable, but the ways of achieving this result are both diverse and subject to both phonological and morphological conditioning. This chapter argues that an adequate analysis of Arabic\u27s pausal phonology requires a derivational version of Optimality Theory, called Harmonic Serialism, in which morpheme spell-out is interleaved with phonological processes