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Finite-state Optimality Theory: non-rationality of Harmonic Serialism

Journal of Language Modelling, 2019
This paper analyzes the language-theoretic complexity of Harmonic Serialism (HS), a derivational variant of Optimality Theory. I show that HS can generate non-rational relations using strictly local markedness constraints, proving the “result” of Hao ...
Yiding Hao
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San’ani Arabic Stress in Harmonic Serialism

International Journal of English Linguistics, 2021
The word stress system in San’ani Arabic exhibits patterns of stress placement that associate some level of prominence with syllables with long vowels and syllables that end in the left-leg of a geminate. The fact that such syllables always succeed in attracting stress away from other non-final CVC syllables, even beyond the final trisyllabic
Faisal M. Al-Mohanna
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Majority Rule in Harmonic Serialism

Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2019
Majority Rule is an unattested process where agreement is controlled by the largest class in the input. As a function from inputs to outputs, Majority Rule requires more computational expressivity than do attested phonological transformations. This paper examines how Majority Rule arises in parallel Optimality Theory and Harmonic Serialism. It is shown
Andrew Lamont
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Lapsed Derivations: Ternary Stress in Harmonic Serialism [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2015
Ternary stress presents a unique challenge to constraint-based metrical stress theories. The main question is how to model ternarity without ternary-specific representations, such as ternary feet. Along this line of reasoning, Elenbaas and Kager (1999) interpret ternarity as an underparsing effect in which long lapses are avoided while the number of ...
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc, Jurgec, Peter
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Harmonic Serialism and Finite-State Optimality Theory [PDF]

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2017), 2017
This paper presents a new finite-state model of Optimality Theory (OT). In this model, two assumptions are imposed on the OT framework. Firstly, I adopt the Harmonic Serialism version of OT, in which output forms are derived from input forms via a series ...
Sophie Hao
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Stress and epenthesis in a Jordanian Arabic dialect: Opacity and Harmonic Serialism

Open Linguistics
This article investigates aspects of stress assignment in a Jordanian Arabic dialect (JA). Cases of opaque stress are discussed with reference to Harmonic Serialism (HS) within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT).
Abu-Abbas Khaled H., Al-Zoubi Abdul Aziz
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Deriving bounded tone with layered feet in Harmonic Serialism: The case of Saghala

Glossa, 2017
This paper proposes an approach to bounded tone shift and spread as found in Bantu languages. Its core intuition is that the bounding domain is delimited by foot structure.
Jeroen Breteler
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A restrictive, parsimonious theory of footing in directional Harmonic Serialism

Phonology, 2022
AbstractThis paper develops a theory of footing in Harmonic Serialism (HS; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004; McCarthy 2000, 2016) where Con contains only directionally evaluated constraints (Eisner 2000, 2002; Lamont 2019, 2022a, 2022b). Directional constraints harmonically order candidates by the location of violations rather than the total number of ...
Andrew Lamont
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No Metathesis in Harmonic Serialism

Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2018
This paper presents a Harmonic Serialism analysis of synchronic metathesis, proposing to eliminate metathesis as an atomic operation, instead analyzing apparent metathesis cases as a result of the sequential application of simpler operations such as copy + deletion or fusion + fission, and not as segment reordering.
C. Takahashi
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An Introduction to Harmonic Serialism

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010
Abstract Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory. This article describes the principles of Harmonic Serialism and the arguments for it. Evidence is drawn from the typology and other properties of various phonological phenomena: stress, syncope, assimilation, and positional neutralization.
John J. McCarthy
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