عنوان

Using Model Theory in Phonology:

شماره

TLpq2307785907

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Using Model Theory in Phonology:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Strother-Garcia, Kristina

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

A Novel Characterization of Syllable Structure and Syllabification

نام ساير پديدآوران

Heinz, Jeffrey

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Delaware

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

183

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Delaware

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

This dissertation investigates the computational properties of syllable-based phenomena using tools from Model Theory. Although the syllable has been studied by linguists for over a century, the computational complexity of syllable well-formedness and syllabification processes has not yet been investigated. After introducing the necessary formalisms from Model Theory, I present three main findings. First, I show that three types of syllable structure representations from the literature are notationally equivalent, meaning we can `translate' between them very easily without loss of information. Second, I formalize syllable well-formedness patterns in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber (ITB) and Moroccan Arabic (MA) as grammars of local, inviolable constraints. Third, I formalize syllabification processes in ITB and MA using Quantifier-Free logic, a weak logical language that can only make local computations. Taken together, these findings support the hypothesis---contrary to constraint-based paradigms which emphasize global optimization---that syllable-based phenomena are fundamentally local in nature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Linguistics

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Heinz, Jeffrey

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Strother-Garcia, Kristina

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y