Complexity, two-level morphology and Finnish
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چکیده
'll~e twoolevel model provides a language independent framework for describing phonological mid morphological phenomena associated with word inflection, derivation and compounding. The model can be expressed ill tenos of finiteostate machines, and it is easy to impliement. ]he model has, in fact, two aspects: (1) it is a linguistic formalism for describing phonological phenomena, and (2) it is a computational apparatus wtfich implements descriptions of particular languages as operalional systems capable of recog~fizing and generating word-fonns.
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