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Full-Text Articles in Phonetics and Phonology
Phonotactic Learning With Distributional Representations, Max A. Nelson
Phonotactic Learning With Distributional Representations, Max A. Nelson
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the possibility that the phonological grammar manipulates phone representations based on learned distributional class memberships rather than those based on substantive linguistic features. In doing so, this work makes three primary contributions. First, I propose three novel algorithms for learning a phonological class system from the distributional statistics of a language, all of which are based on partitioning graph representations of phone distributions. Second, I propose a new method for fitting Maximum Entropy phonotactic grammars, MaxEntGrams, which offers theoretical complexity improvements over the widely-adopted approach taken by Hayes and Wilson [2008]. Third, I present a series of …
Examining Variability In Spanish Monolingual And Bilingual Phonotactics: A Look At Sc-Clusters, Katerina A. Tetzloff
Examining Variability In Spanish Monolingual And Bilingual Phonotactics: A Look At Sc-Clusters, Katerina A. Tetzloff
Doctoral Dissertations
Current models of generative phonology have failed to address the variability that is observed in bilingual language patterns patterns. This dissertation addresses exactly that issue by examining the perception of Spanish sC-clusters in Spanish monolinguals and English-Spanish bilinguals. Surface sC-clusters in onset position are prohibited in Spanish and are repaired by inserting a prothetic /e/ (sC $\rightarrow$ esC). English differs in that it allows sC-cluster onsets, and the structure of the sC-cluster has been shown to differ based on the sonority profile (i.e., s+stop clusters are bisyllabic, s+liquid clusters are tautosyllabic). A batch version of a Harmonic Grammar Gradual Learning …
Restrictive Tier Induction, Seoyoung Kim
Restrictive Tier Induction, Seoyoung Kim
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation proposes the Restrictive Tier Learner, which automatically induces only the tiers that are absolutely necessary in capturing phonological long-distance dependencies. The core of my learner is the addition of an extra evaluation step to the existing Inductive Projection Learner (Gouskova and Gallagher 2020), where the necessity and accuracy of the candidate tiers are determined. An important building block of my learner is a typological observation, namely the dichotomy between trigram-bound and unbounded patterns. The fact that this dichotomy is attested in both consonant interactions and vowel interactions allows for a unified approach to be used. Another important piece …
Learning Phonology With Sequence-To-Sequence Neural Networks, Brandon Prickett
Learning Phonology With Sequence-To-Sequence Neural Networks, Brandon Prickett
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation tests sequence-to-sequence neural networks to see whether they can simulate human phonological learning and generalization in a number of artificial language experiments. These experiments and simulations are organized into three chapters: one on opaque interactions, one on computational complexity in phonology, and one on reduplication. The first chapter focuses on two biases involving interactions that have been proposed in the past: a bias for transparent patterns and a bias for patterns that maximally utilize all of the processes in a language. The second chapter looks at harmony patterns of varying complexity to see whether both Formal Language Theory …
Emergent Typological Effects Of Agent-Based Learning Models In Maximum Entropy Grammar, Coral Hughto
Emergent Typological Effects Of Agent-Based Learning Models In Maximum Entropy Grammar, Coral Hughto
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation shows how a theory of grammatical representations and a theory of learning can be combined to generate gradient typological predictions in phonology, predicting not only which patterns are expected to exist, but also their relative frequencies: patterns which are learned more easily are predicted to be more typologically frequent than those which are more difficult. In Chapter 1 I motivate and describe the specific implementation of this methodology in this dissertation. Maximum Entropy grammar (Goldwater & Johnson 2003) is combined with two agent-based learning models, the iterated and the interactive learning model, each of which mimics a type …
Reduplication As Evidence For The Geometry Of Tone, Laura J. Walsh
Reduplication As Evidence For The Geometry Of Tone, Laura J. Walsh
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Infixing And Moraic Circumscription, Suzanne C. Urbanczyk
Infixing And Moraic Circumscription, Suzanne C. Urbanczyk
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Syllable Structure And Syllabification In Yapese, Rachel Thorburn
Syllable Structure And Syllabification In Yapese, Rachel Thorburn
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
English Compensatory Lengthening, Tim D. Sherer
English Compensatory Lengthening, Tim D. Sherer
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Syllable Structure Of Tamil Nouns, Amy J. Schafer
The Syllable Structure Of Tamil Nouns, Amy J. Schafer
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Cyclic Effects On Prosodic Voicing Assimilation, Jeffrey Runner
Cyclic Effects On Prosodic Voicing Assimilation, Jeffrey Runner
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Unifying Four Phonological Process Of Prenasalized Stop Formation, Sam Rosenthall
Unifying Four Phonological Process Of Prenasalized Stop Formation, Sam Rosenthall
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Positionally Determined [Atr] Vowel Harmony In Wolof, Bernhard Rohrbacher
Positionally Determined [Atr] Vowel Harmony In Wolof, Bernhard Rohrbacher
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
A Case Of Surface Constraint Violation, John J. Mccarthy
A Case Of Surface Constraint Violation, John J. Mccarthy
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Size, Structure, And Markedness In Phonological Inventories, John Kingston
Size, Structure, And Markedness In Phonological Inventories, John Kingston
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Feature Geometry Of Coronal Subplaces, Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
The Feature Geometry Of Coronal Subplaces, Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Feature Organization And The Strong Domain Hypothesis In Zulu [Labial] Phonology, Jill N. Beckman
Feature Organization And The Strong Domain Hypothesis In Zulu [Labial] Phonology, Jill N. Beckman
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Tim D. Sherer
Front Matter, Tim D. Sherer
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Segments And Skeleton In Chinese, Tong Shen
The Segments And Skeleton In Chinese, Tong Shen
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
A Two-Root Theory Of Length, Elisabeth Selkirk
A Two-Root Theory Of Length, Elisabeth Selkirk
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Representation Of Kabardian Harmonic Clusters, Jaye Padgett
The Representation Of Kabardian Harmonic Clusters, Jaye Padgett
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Syllabification, Compensatory Lengthening And Epenthesis In Irish, Máire Ní Chiosáin
Syllabification, Compensatory Lengthening And Epenthesis In Irish, Máire Ní Chiosáin
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Tone And Accent In Carrier, Joyce Mcdonough
Tone And Accent In Carrier, Joyce Mcdonough
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Semitic Gutturals And Distinctive Feature Theory, John J. Mccarthy
Semitic Gutturals And Distinctive Feature Theory, John J. Mccarthy
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Æ Tensing In Lexical Phonology, Elaine Dunlap
Æ Tensing In Lexical Phonology, Elaine Dunlap
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Elaine Dunlap, Jaye Padgett
Front Matter, Elaine Dunlap, Jaye Padgett
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Metathesis And Old English Phonology, Samuel Jay Keyser
Metathesis And Old English Phonology, Samuel Jay Keyser
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Production And Perception Of Subject Focus Prosody In L2 Spanish, Covadonga Sanchez
The Production And Perception Of Subject Focus Prosody In L2 Spanish, Covadonga Sanchez
Doctoral Dissertations
New information can be introduced in discourse through different strategies, including syntactic and prosodic ones. This project provides an account of the syntactic and intonational strategies used for focus-marking in Peninsular Spanish, Mainstream American English and L2 Spanish using parallel experimental designs and a unitary method of analysis within the Autosegmental-Metrical framework for the study of intonation. It provides a comprehensive description of specific phonological categories and their phonetic implementation not only in monolingual speech, but also as they develop in the L2 grammar of Spanish learners with different experiences with the target language, following the premises of the L2 …
Optimal Linearization: Prosodic Displacement In Khoekhoegowab And Beyond, Leland Kusmer
Optimal Linearization: Prosodic Displacement In Khoekhoegowab And Beyond, Leland Kusmer
Doctoral Dissertations
Understanding the relationship between syntactic structures and linear strings is a challenge for modern syntactic theories. The most complete and widely accepted models — namely, the Headedness Parameter and the Linear Correspondence Axiom (Kayne, 1994) — each capture aspects of this relationship, but are either too permissive or two restrictive: A Headedness Parameter relativized to individual categories permits nearly any linear order which keeps phrases contiguous, even those that violate the Final-Over-Final Constraint (Sheehan et al. 2017); by contrast, the Linear Correspondence Axiom is well-known for ruling out head-final configurations generally. Subsequent models of linearization have typically been modifications of …
Effects Of Phonological Contrast On Within-Category Phonetic Variation, Ivy Hauser
Effects Of Phonological Contrast On Within-Category Phonetic Variation, Ivy Hauser
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation investigates an often assumed hypothesis in phonetics and phonology: that there should be relatively less within-category phonetic variation in production in languages which have relatively more phonological contrasts (Lindblom, 1986, on vowels). Although this hypothesis is intuitive, there is little existing evidence to support the claim and it is difficult to generalize outside of vowels. In this dissertation, I argue that this hypothesis is not trivially true and needs additional specification. I propose an extension of this hypothesis, Contrast-Dependent Variation, which predicts relative differences in extent of within-category variation between languages and individual speakers. Contrast-Dependent Variation can make …