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Generative Metrics: An Overview
Author(s) -
Blumenfeld Lev
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/lnc3.12204
Subject(s) - generative grammar , linguistics , phonology , typology , section (typography) , field (mathematics) , computer science , theoretical linguistics , interface (matter) , variation (astronomy) , sociology , natural language processing , philosophy , mathematics , anthropology , physics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , astrophysics , pure mathematics , operating system
Abstract This overview article covers the field of metrics as a branch of linguistics, focusing on the generative tradition. A brief outline of the basic ideas of foundational papers by Halle & Keyser and Kiparsky is followed by a discussion of three theoretical issues: the nature of representations; gradience and variation; and the interface of metrics with phonology. The last section covers theoretical approaches to typology.