Open AccessCrossing word boundaries : constraints for misaligned syllabification
Author(s) -
Caroline R. Wiltshire
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.19.2000.73
Subject(s) - syllabification , computer science , phrase , word (group theory) , context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , isolation (microbiology) , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , speech recognition , syllable , history , philosophy , archaeology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , programming language
In this work, I examine a set of languages which appear to require resyllabification postlexically; in less derivational terms, a word's syllabification in isolation differs from its syllabification in a phrase-internal context. Although many people, myself included, have been looking at such cases in isolation over the years, I bring together several examples here to see what features they share and how an Optimality Theory analysis improves upon rule-based derivational approaches.