"Now, it's fine for someone to make a claim that a give element is a base or is a prefix, but not without evidence. Whyyyyyyy?"
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The fourth anniversary of Shameless Spelling came and went without fanfare on April 1, no fooling. I had intended to acknowledge it with a post that day, but alas, I was sick in bed, out of state unexpectedly, without my laptop. This coming June
As it turns out, the key was not in studying the part with the <r(r)>; they key was in figuring out what the <y> is (and is not) in each of the families.
Optimality Theory focuses more on competing constraints than on conventions, and it considers that the optimal form is the one that incurs the least egregious contraventions of those constraints.
There. Is. No. Rule. That. Cranberry / Unique / Fossilized. Morphemes. Can't. Be. Analyzed.