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Constraint-based Morpho-phonology (1994)
| Venue: | Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Citations: | 7 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Mastroianni94constraint-basedmorpho-phonology,
author = {Michael Mastroianni and Bob Carpenter},
title = {Constraint-based Morpho-phonology},
booktitle = {Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {1994},
pages = {13--24}
}
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Abstract
this paper, we develop a new generative paradigm with which to capture phonological generalizations. Our framework differs from standard generative frameworks inasmuch as we eschew all derivational analyses. Thus, we dispense with procedural transformations of underlying and intermediate representations into surface forms by means of the cyclic application of relatively unconstrained context-sensitive rewriting rules. Instead, we adopt a strictly monostratal approach, wherein a single level of articulatory representation is subject to linguistic constraints expressed declaratively using well-understood logical tools. In order for our enterprise to succeed, we will require a rich representational system. To this end, we follow the lead of autosegmental and metrical phonology, taking our representations to be organized around natural groupings of articulators. A further similarity to autosegmental analyses and some traditional generative analyses is that we allow underspecification in our lexical representations. But in contrast to these other theories, we adopt a single, concrete, surface-based representational system, rather than abstract underlying and intermediate representations of uncertain status. In particular, our approach is strictly monotonic, disallowing stages of analysis in which ill-formed representations are constructed and repaired. Instead, the linguistic constraints we impose, both universal and parochial, combined with possibly underspecified lexical representations, conspire to fully determine surface representations. The result is a fully declarative system, albeit one which can be provided with a procedural interpretation in which lexical (syntactic and semantic) representations are incrementally refined into surface representations, or vice-versa, ...
Keyphrases
constraint-based morpho-phonology linguistic constraint surface representation intermediate representation declarative system surface-based representational system unconstrained context-sensitive rewriting rule derivational analysis traditional generative analysis well-understood logical tool standard generative framework procedural transformation phonological generalization articulatory representation cyclic application underspecified lexical representation monostratal approach surface form ill-formed representation metrical phonology framework differs natural grouping new generative paradigm lexical representation single level procedural interpretation rich representational system autosegmental analysis uncertain status
