Elamite Phonology and Morphology

Planar Phonology and Morphology

Sign-Based Morphology and Phonology

Sign-Based Morphology and Phonology with special attention to Optimality Theory In this dissertation, I develop Sign-Based Morphology, a novel, comprehensive, declarative theory of the phonology-morphology interface. Theories of morphology are traditionally assigned one of the following classifications: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process, and Word-and-Paradigm. Sign-Based Morphology shares ...

Edge Asymmetries in Phonology and Morphology

(1) (a) Positional Preservation: Underlying phonological material can resist neutralization at the left edge of a constituent, but not at the right edge. (Trubetzkoy 1939:228ff, Casali 1997, Beckman 1998) (b) Iambic Footing Asymmetry: Iambic feet are almost always parsed from left to right − not rightto-left. e.g. [(σσ")(σσ")σ], *[σ(σσ")(σσ")]. (Hayes 1985, 1995) (c) Prefix-Suffix Asymmetry: At...

Phonology and morphology in lexical processing

An Automated Learner for Phonology and Morphology

Linguists of many persuasions take a realist view of linguistic theory as it relates to learning: language learners, in infancy and childhood, are assumed to come equipped with whatever principles of linguistic structure and of language learning are biologically determined in our species. They encounter and process numerous input data, provided essentially at random, from the ambient language. ...