Making constraints positional: toward a compositional model of Con

Smith, Jennifer L.

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2003.08.003

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“…Kikuchi's (2002Kikuchi's ( , 2009) approach suffers, however, from a fundamental problem. Stressed syllables are metrically prominent positions, and there is ample typological evidence that prominent positions are more faithful to the input than non-prominent positions, that is, prominent positions preserve contrast and avoid neutralization (Smith 2004(Smith , 2008. Relativizing the margin sonority constraint hierarchy for stressed syllables seems therefore unjustified from a typological perspective.…”

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Stress and final /n/ deletion in Catalan: Combining Strict CV and OT

Faust

Torres-Tamarit

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In Catalan, /n/ deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the violable constraints of Optimality Theory, two rarely combined but perfectly compatible analytical tools. We propose that final /n/ floats unassociated below its C position if it cannot be licensed by a following segment. In such circumstances, an entire CV unit is left unidentified at the right edge, a situation which is penalized by the system. Still, when stress is final, this rightmost CV unit is identified by the weak branch of a trochaic foot. As a result, the /n/ may remain afloat. However, when stress is not final, the final CV remains otherwise unidentified, and so /n/ must associate to it, even though it is unlicensed.

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Stress and final /n/ deletion in Catalan: Combining Strict CV and OT

Faust

Torres-Tamarit

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…A looser version of universality supposes that constraints are built compositionally from a set of constraint templates or primitives or phonological features (Hayes, 1999;Smith, 2004;Idsardi, 2006;Riggle, 2009). This version allows language-particular constraints, but it comes with a computational cost, as the learner must be able to generate and evaluate possible constraints while learning the language's phonology.…”

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Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory

Doyle

Bicknell²,

Lévy

2014

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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We present a method to jointly learn features and weights directly from distributional data in a log-linear framework. Specifically, we propose a non-parametric Bayesian model for learning phonological markedness constraints directly from the distribution of input-output mappings in an Optimality Theory (OT) setting. The model uses an Indian Buffet Process prior to learn the feature values used in the loglinear method, and is the first algorithm for learning phonological constraints without presupposing constraint structure. The model learns a system of constraints that explains observed data as well as the phonologically-grounded constraints of a standard analysis, with a violation structure corresponding to the standard constraints. These results suggest an alternative data-driven source for constraints instead of a fully innate constraint set.

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“…While word-initial strength is discussed in detail, the strength of postcoda consonants, although well documented since the 19th century, is simply absent from the record (e.g. Beckman, 1997Beckman, , 1998Kirchner, 1998Kirchner, , 2004Steriade, 1999;Zoll, 2004;Vijayakrishnan, 2003;Smith, 2003Smith, , 2004. Kirchner (1998, pp.…”

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Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity

Scheer

2013

Language Sciences

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Making constraints positional: toward a compositional model of Con

Cited by 34 publications

References 64 publications

Stress and final /n/ deletion in Catalan: Combining Strict CV and OT

Stress and final /n/ deletion in Catalan: Combining Strict CV and OT

Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory

Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity

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