Feeding/counterfeeding/bleeding/counterbleeding.
I have a confession to make. I never really felt that I understood this terminology.
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I think I can offer an explanation for one part of the mystery that was bothering Eric. The many examples with epenthetic “o” are almost certainly from Japanese.
It's all in the grammar
I have been following the discussion on flapping. While I tend to think that Bob is on the right track, there is one thing that really sets my teeth on edge, and that is his term “Underoptimization”. What is that supposed to mean? Sounds like a bad tune-up.
There seems to be a misconception here about what Lexicon Optimization is. Lexicon Optimization doesn’t mean that inputs have to look like outputs, or that inputs have to be fully specified either. It means only that the same grammar that determines outputs also predicts inputs. So depending on the grammar, Lexicon Optimization might imply that underlying forms are underspecified.