Kessler, Brett. 1993, April. Sandhi and syllables in Classical Sanskrit. In Eric Duncan, Donka Farkas & Philip Spaelti (eds.), The proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 35–50. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1994.
Although Sanskrit is often characterized as having a phrasal phonology that is unnatural to the point of artificiality, this paper shows that phonologically unnatural rules can be isolated in the lexical phonology, where one expects to find rules that require historical explanation. It also shows that with the exception of three rules that have lexical conditions, the rules of external sandhi can be described as syllable-juncture P2 rules rather than as word-juncture rules. Thus they obey Kaisse's theory of sandhi despite her original analysis. It further shows that pada suffixes, which have traditionally been held to exceptionally obey external sandhi, are not exceptional at all when syllable structure is taken into consideration.
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Kessler, B. 1994. Sandhi and syllables in Classical Sanskrit. In E. Duncan, D. Farkas, & P. Spaelti (Eds.), The proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 35–50). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
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