The Strict Locality of Phonological Processes

Strict Locality and Phonological Maps

Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran

This article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. A representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. While assimilation and dissimilation a...

network of phonological rules in lori dialect of andimeshk: a study within the framework of post-generative approach.

پژوهش حاضر ارائه ی توصیفی است از نظام آوایی گویش لری شهر اندیمشک، واقع در شمال غربی استان خوزستان. چهارچوب نظری این پژوهش، انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل می باشد. این پایان نامه شامل موارد زیر است: -توصیف آواهای این گویش به صورت آواشناسی سنتی و در قالب مختصه های زایشی ممیز، همراه با آوانوشته ی تفصیلی؛ -توصیف نظام آوایی گویش لری و قواعد واجی آن در چهارچوب انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل و معرفی برهم کن...

Violation of Bell’s inequality under strict Einstein locality conditions

We observe strong violation of Bell’s inequality in an Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen type experiment with independent observers. Our experiment definitely implements the ideas behind the well known work by Aspect et al. We for the first time fully enforce the condition of locality, a central assumption in the derivation of Bell’s theorem. The necessary space-like separation of the observations i...

Learning Local Phonological Processes

This paper presents a learning algorithm for local phonological processes that exploits a restriction on the expressive power needed to compute phonological patterns that apply locally. This restriction reflects the well-recognized idea that locality plays an important role in phonology (Kenstowicz (1994); Gafos (1996), among others) and arguably in learning (Heinz, 2009). We first characterize...