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'''Morphemic Tier Hypothesis (MTH)''' is a hypothesis first introduced into the theory of [[Autosegmental phonology]] in McCarthy (1981) which entails the claim that every [[morpheme]] making up a [[word]] is assigned a separate tier, i.e., a separate and autonomous level of representation. This hypothesis is mainly proposed to circumvent the [[No-Crossing Constraint]] which says that association lines may not cross.

=== Example ===

the [[Arabic]] word ''katab'' is made out of the triliteral [[root]] ''ktb'' 'write', the [[perfective]] [[active]] morpheme ''a'', and the [[template]] CVCVC. If the morphemes ''ktb'' and ''a'' were represented at a single tier, association of these morphemes to the template CVCVC would result in a violation of the No-Crossing Constraint, as is shown in (i). By representing them at autonomous tiers as in (ii), this problem is solved:

(i) * C V C V C * C V C V C
| | | | | | |
k a t b k t b a

(ii) a
/ \
C V C V C
| | |
k t b

=== Links ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Morphemic+Tier+Hypothesis+(MTH)&lemmacode=565 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

=== References ===

* Goldsmith, J. 1990. ''Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
* McCarthy, J. 1986. ''OCP Effects: gemination and antigemination,'' Linguistic Inquiry 17, pp. 207-264
* McCarthy, J. 1981. ''A prosodic Theory of Nonconcatenative Morphology,'' Linguistic Inquiry 12, pp. 373-418
* Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.

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+The '''Morphemic Tier Hypothesis (MTH)''' is a hypothesis first introduced into the theory of [[Autosegmental phonology]] in McCarthy (1981) which entails the claim that every [[morpheme]] making up a [[word]] is assigned a separate tier, i.e., a separate and autonomous level of representation. This hypothesis is mainly proposed to circumvent the [[No-Crossing Constraint]] which says that association lines may not cross.
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