Metrical Grids and Generalized Tier Projection
Sophie Hao
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004837
October 2019
This paper formalizes metrical grid theory (MGT, Prince, 1983; Hayes, 1995) and studies its expressive power. I show that MGT analyses of a certain form can describe stress systems beyond the input tier-based input strictly local functions proposed by Hao and Andersson (2019), but conjecture that such analyses do not describe systems beyond the input tier-based strictly local languages of Baek (2018). These results reveal fundamental differences between the three formalisms.
| Format: | [ pdf ] |
| Reference: | lingbuzz/004837 (please use that when you cite this article) |
| Published in: | Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics |
| keywords: | subregular phonology, subregular, phonology, stress, tier-based strictly local, functions, transductions, metrical grid theory, abkhaz, unbounded stress, culminativity, mathematical linguistics, phonology |