A Computational Phonology of Russian - Couverture souple

Chew, Peter A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1581121784 ISBN 13 : 9781581121780

Editeur : Dissertation.com, 2003

Synopsis

This dissertation provides a coherent, synchronic, broad-coverage, generative phonology of Russian. I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. In taking this approach, I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. In most cases, the tests show that there are exceptions to the theory, but at least we know what the exceptions are, a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, and in most cases the percentage of exceptional cases is reduced to below 5%. The principal theoretical outcomes of the work are as follows. First, I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. Secondly, I exploit probabilistic constraints in the syllable structure grammar to explain why constraints on word-marginal onsets and codas are weaker than on word-internal onsets and codas. I argue that the features []/- initial] and []/- final], and extraprosodicity, are unnecessary for this purpose.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dissertation.com
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1581121784
• ISBN 13: 9781581121780
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 428
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne