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Stress and epenthesis in a Jordanian Arabic dialect: Opacity and Harmonic Serialism
Open LinguisticsAbstract 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). Two sources of opaque stress are under consideration.
Abu-Abbas Khaled H., Al-Zoubi Abdul Aziz
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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 (2017), that HS is rational under those assumptions, to be incorrect.
Sophie Hao
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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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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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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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Reduplication in Harmonic Serialism
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 ...
McCarthy, John J. +2 more
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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.
McCarthy, John J. +2 more
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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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