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Computational phonology is one of the newest areas of computational linguistics, and is experiencing rapid growth as its practitioners apply the wealth of theories, technologies and methodologies of computational linguistics to phonology. This book is the first to survey these developments, and it does so in a way that is accessible to computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists alike. The interests of these diverse groups overlap in the subject area of constraints. The goal of this book is to explore the use of constraints in modern non-linear phonology and then - drawing on insights from constraint-based grammar and constraint logic programming - to formalise and implement a constraint-based phonology.
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 1.1 | Introduction to phonology | 4 |
| 1.2 | The formal adequacy of autosegmental notation | 12 |
| 1.3 | Computational phonology | 14 |
| 1.4 | Constraint-based phonology | 27 |
| 1.5 | The history of constraints in phonology | 36 |
| 2 | A logical foundation for phonology | 51 |
| 2.1 | Sorts | 52 |
| 2.2 | Hierarchical organisation | 57 |
| 2.3 | Temporal organisation | 65 |
| 2.4 | The interaction of hierarchical and temporal structure | 77 |
| 2.5 | Temporal feature logic | 80 |
| 2.6 | Phonological rules | 84 |
| 3 | A critique of destructive processes | 91 |
| 3.1 | Conditions on alternations | 91 |
| 3.2 | Deletion as alternation with zero | 93 |
| 3.3 | Deletion as a phonetic process | 97 |
| 3.4 | Resyllabification | 100 |
| 3.5 | Feature changing harmony | 104 |
| 4 | A theory of segmental structure | 109 |
| 4.1 | The evidence for hierarchical organisation | 111 |
| 4.2 | An articulatory model | 122 |
| 4.3 | Formalising the theory | 130 |
| 5 | Implementation | 135 |
| 5.1 | Model building | 136 |
| 5.2 | Internal representation | 137 |
| 5.3 | Prolog/C interface | 144 |
| 6 | Conclusion | 153 |
| Appendix: Logical extensions | 157 | |
| References | 171 | |
| Language index | 193 | |
| Name index | 195 | |
| Subject index | 199 |
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Computational phonology is one of the newest areas of computational linguistics, and is experiencing rapid growth as its practitioners apply the wealth of theories, technologies and methodologies of computational linguistics to phonology. This book is the first to survey these developments, and it does so in a way that is accessible to computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists alike. The interests of these diverse groups overlap in the subject area of constraints. The goal of this book is to ...