Extending TSL to Account for Interactions of Local and Non-Local Constraints
- Aniello De Santo (Stony Brook University)
Abstract
Recent research in computational linguistics suggests that unbounded dependencies in phonotactics, morphology, and even syntax can all be captured by the class of Tier-based Strictly Local languages (TSL). Here, I explore a new class of subregular languages obtained by relaxing a particular constraint on the tier-projection mechanism of TSL grammars. I show how a small change in the definition of tier allows us to cover phonotactic patterns that escape the standard tier-based account, without losing any of the essential properties of TSL.
Keywords: phonology, phonotactics, locality, subregular hypothesis, formal language theory
How to Cite:
De Santo, A., (2018) “Extending TSL to Account for Interactions of Local and Non-Local Constraints”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 1(1), 213-214. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/R56T0JT2
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