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Title:
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Declarative Prosodic Morphology - Constraint-based analyses and computational models of Finnish and Tigrinya
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Author:
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Markus Walther
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
, Department of General Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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1997
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Computational Linguistics
Language Documentation
Morphology
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Subject Language(s):
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Finnish
Tigrigna
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Director(s):
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James Kilbury
Richard Wiese
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Abstract:
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[Thesis written in German; original title 'Deklarative prosodische Morphologie - constraint-basierte Analysen und Computermodelle zum Finnischen und Tigrinya; published 1999 by Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen (ISBN 3-484-30399-9)]
Current theoretical work in linguistics, and particularly in phonology, witnesses a trend towards using declarative wellformedness conditions (constraints) in order to adequately describe linguistic generalizations. The DECLARATIVE PHONOLOGY paradigm (Scobbie 1991, Bird 1995) adopted in this thesis maximally exploits these in describing both the grammar and the lexicon with inviolable constraints. The specific contribution of COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS in this regard is to show how constraints can be implemented in order to derive precise consequences from formal grammar descriptions in an automatic fashion. PROSODIC MORPHOLOGY lends support to the constraint-based approach from its empirical domain: words preferably consist of wellformed syllables or syllable constituents, etc. Wellknown examples may be found in the rich morphology of Semitic languages such as Arabic or Modern Hebrew with supposedly `non-concatenative' word structure.
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