Equiprobable mappings in weighted constraint grammars
Arto Anttila, Scott Borgeson, Giorgio Magri
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004670
June 2019
We show that MaxEnt is so rich that it can distinguish between any two different mappings: there always exists a nonnegative weight vector which assigns them different MaxEnt probabilities. Stochastic HG instead does admit equiprobable mappings and we give a complete formal characterization of them. We compare these different predictions of the two frameworks on a test case of Finnish stress.
| Format: | [ pdf ] |
| Reference: | lingbuzz/004670 (please use that when you cite this article) |
| Published in: | SIGMORPHON 2019: 16th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology (best paper) |
| keywords: | maxent, stochastic harmonic grammar, finnish word stress, phonology |