Open AccessComputational Restrictions on Interative Prosodic Processes
Author(s) -
Hossep Dolatian,
Nate Koser,
Jonathan Rawski,
Kristina StrotherGarcia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meetings on phonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2377-3324
DOI - 10.3765/amp.v9i0.4920
Subject(s) - syllabification , iterative and incremental development , phonology , computer science , focus (optics) , phonological rule , recursion (computer science) , algorithm , mathematics , linguistics , speech recognition , syllable , philosophy , physics , software engineering , optics
We demonstrate a computational restriction on iterative prosody in phonology by using logical transductions. We show that the typology is fundamentally local but requires output recursion, formulated via quantifier-free transductions and least-fixed-point operators, respectively. We focus on two case studies from iterative prosody. One is iterative secondary stress. The other is more complex: iterative syllabification and epenthesis in Arabic dialects. The second case study involves formalizing Ito (1989)'s analysis of directional syllabification.