What is the Phonological Word in Dagbani? A Positional Faithfulness Account

German fricatives: coda devoicing or positional faithfulness?

In this paper we show how Jessen & Ringen’s (2002) analysis of voicing in German stops can be extended to account for the voicing of German fricatives. It is argued that while stops in German contrast for the feature [spread glottis], fricatives contrast for [voice] (and [spread glottis]). Our analysis, which involves presonorant faithfulness, is compared to an analysis with coda devoicing. We ...

What is Phonological Typology?

In this talk I am concerned with the following questions: 1. What is phonological typology? 2. How are phonological typology and phonetic typology the same/different? 3. How are phonological typology and general phonology the same/different? 4. How are phonological typology and general typology the same/different? Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson, Martinet, Greenberg and others, and...

On the convergence of positional markedness and positional faithfulness in vowel harmony

What Is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account

What is a word , What is a sentence ? Problems of

Any linguistic treatment of freely occurring text must provide an answer to what is considered as a token. In artiicial languages, the deenition of what is considered as a token can be precisely and unambiguously deened. Natural languages, on the other hand, display such a rich variety that there are many ways to decide upon what will be considered as a unit for a computational approach to text...