Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates
نویسنده
چکیده
Recent arguments in the phonological literature favor treating the root-and-template patterns of Semitic morphology not by means of an abstract consonantal root, as in traditional standard approaches, but rather by deriving new forms from full surface strings (containing ordered consonants and vowels and prosodic structure). In this paper I explore the implications of this proposal for the generation of the correct vowel patterns in Tigrinya verb templates, as well as more generally the questions arising in the treatment of Tigrinya vocalisms.
منابع مشابه
Against vowel length in Tigrinya
I argue in this paper that vowel length plays no role in the synchronic phonology of Tigrinya: processes affecting vowels should be treated in featural terms only. The evidence in favor of synchronic vowel length is weak, and stronger evidence favors an analysis in which vowel length is phonologically irrelevant. While some researchers have made use of synchronic vowel length to account for ost...
متن کاملTigrinya Root Consonants and the OCP
ing away from the reduplicated part of the stem, these verbs are derived from triliterals such as /¿rm/, and are assimilable to the large class of triliteral roots more typically realized as in (6). Only one root, identified by Bassano as belonging to the Hamasen dialect, is treated in this analysis as a true quinquiliteral (cf. also (37) below). It is also unique among five-slot templates in t...
متن کاملThe influence of accents in australian English vowels and their relation to articulatory tract parameters
In this paper we analyse and compare a low dimensional linguistic representation of vowels with high dimensional prototypical vowel templates derived from a native Australian English speaker. We further perform the same analysis on Lebanese and Vietnamese accented English to investigate how di erences due to accents impact on such a representation. In a low dimensional linguistic representation...
متن کاملSemitic Morphological Analysis and Generation Using Finite State Transducers with Feature Structures
This paper presents an application of finite state transducers weighted with feature structure descriptions, following Amtrup (2003), to the morphology of the Semitic language Tigrinya. It is shown that feature-structure weights provide an efficient way of handling the templatic morphology that characterizes Semitic verb stems as well as the long-distance dependencies characterizing the complex...
متن کاملTigrinya Part-of-Speech Tagging with Morphological Patterns and the New Nagaoka Tigrinya CorpusTigrinya Part-of-Speech Tagging with Morphological Patterns and the New Nagaoka Tigrinya Corpus
This paper presents the first part-of-speech (POS) tagging research for Tigrinya (Semitic language) from the newly constructed Nagaoka Tigrinya Corpus. The raw text was extracted from a newspaper published in Eritrea in the Tigrinya language. This initial corpus was cleaned and formatted in plaintext and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML format. A tagset of 73 tags was designed, and the co...
متن کامل