Open AccessThe representation of syllable structure in HPSG
Author(s) -
Jesse Tseng
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2008.14
Subject(s) - syllable , syllabification , head driven phrase structure grammar , representation (politics) , sign (mathematics) , computer science , word (group theory) , linguistics , phonology , sequence (biology) , natural language processing , speech recognition , mathematics , artificial intelligence , generative grammar , mathematical analysis , philosophy , politics , biology , political science , law , genetics
This paper proposes a representation for syllable structure in HPSG, building on previous work byBird and Klein (1994), Höhle (1999), and Crysmann (2002). Instead of mapping segments into a aseparate part of the sign where syllables are represented structurally, information aboutsyllabification is encoded directly in the list of segments, the core of the PHONOLOGY value. Higherlevel prosodic phenomena can operate on a more abstract representation of the sequence of syllablesderived from the syllabified segments list. The approach is illustrated with analyses of someword-boundary phenomena conditioned by syllable structure in French.