Modelling Autosegmental Phonology with Multi-Tape Finite State Transducers (1992)
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@MISC{Wiebe92modellingautosegmental,
author = {Bruce Wiebe},
title = {Modelling Autosegmental Phonology with Multi-Tape Finite State Transducers},
year = {1992}
}
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Abstract
Phonology may be briefly defined as the study of sound patterns in spoken language. One of the most well-known computational models of phonology, Koskenniemi's two-level phonology, is based on an underlying linguistic theory that has been superseded by autosegmental phonology, which began with the work of Goldsmith. There is a need for computational models that are faithful to this more recent theory. Such a model can form the basis of a computational tool that can quickly and accurately check the validity of a phonological analysis on a large amount of phonetic data, freeing the linguist from the tedious and error-prone task of doing this by hand. This thesis presents a new computational model of phonology that is faithful to standard autosegmental theory, that has clearly adequate expressive power, and that is suitable as the basis for a tool for phonological analysis. It follows on very recent efforts by Kornai and Bird & Ellison to model autosegmental phonology. The model is based ...
