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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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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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Reduplication in Harmonic Serialism [PDF]

Morphology, 2012
In standard Optimality Theory, faithfulness constraints are defined in terms of an input-output correspondence relation, and similar constraints are applied to the correspondence relation between a stem and its reduplicative copy. In Harmonic Serialism, a derivational version of Optimality Theory, there is no input-output correspondence relation, and ...
John J Mccarthy
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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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Perceptually Grounded Faithfulness in Harmonic Serialism

Linguistic Inquiry, 2011
Supresedes "The p-map in Harmonic Serialism"
John J Mccarthy
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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
Yiding 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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Implications of Harmonic Serialism for lexical tone association

, 2012
In some languages, notably Kikuyu, the association of tones and syllables is completely predictable. In this paper, we show that a derivational version of Optimality Theory, Harmonic Serialism, cannot account for Kikuyu if underlying representations include preassociated tones.
John J Mccarthy
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John J. McCarthy and Joe Pater (eds.): Harmonic grammar and harmonic serialism.

Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, 2019
This volume contains chapters that explore and extend advances in formal investigations of grammar that employ violable constraints in the analysis of individual languages, the study of linguistic typology, and the learnability of grammars.
Michael T. Putnam
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The Investigation of Phonological Changes in the Negative Prefix of Kalhori Kurdish Preceding a Glide: a Serial Optimality Theoretic Account [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2022
When the negative prefix of na- is added to Kalhori Kurdish verbal constructions with initial glides, the vowel of the prefix is left intact in certain contexts, and yet in others, undergoes partial or full assimilation of Place features with its ...
Mehdi Fattahi
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