Cyclicity

This paper addresses current debates about morphosyntactic conditioning in phonology. After proposing criteria for distinguishing between representational (prosodic) and procedural (cyclic) effects, I focus on the contest between the cycle and OO-correspondence. I adduce three instances of morphosyntactically induced phonological misapplication that challenge the basic premises of transderivational theories: Quito Spanish /s/-voicing, English linking and intrusive r, and Albanian verb stress. In all three cases, the surface bases needed for an analysis relying on OO-correspondence are unavailable for phonological or morphological reasons. The discussion shows that questions about morphosyntax-phonology interactions are intricately entangled with problems in other areas of phonology, notably including the theory of representations, the phonology-phonetics interface, and the balance between synchronic and diachronic explanation.