| A Computational Phonology of Russian Contributor(s): Chew, Peter A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1581121784 ISBN-13: 9781581121780 Publisher: Dissertation.com OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Russian |
| Dewey: 491.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 7.46" W x 9.68" (1.67 lbs) 428 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This dissertation provides a coherent, synchronic, broad-coverage, generative phonology of Russian. I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. In taking this approach, I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. In most cases, the tests show that there are exceptions to the theory, but at least we know what the exceptions are, a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, and in most cases the percentage of exceptional cases is reduced to below 5%. The principal theoretical outcomes of the work are as follows. First, I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. Secondly, I exploit probabilistic constraints in the syllable structure grammar to explain why constraints on word-marginal onsets and codas are weaker than on word-internal onsets and codas. I argue that the features ]/- initial] and ]/- final], and extraprosodicity, are unnecessary for this purpose. |