A Computational Phonology of Russian

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter A. Chew
• Editore: Dissertation.com
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2003
• EAN: 9781581121780
• ISBN: 978-1-58112-178-0
• Pagine: 428
• Dimensioni: 189 mm x 246 mm x 24 mm
• Peso: 823 g
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica slava