RedTyp: A Database of Reduplication with Computational Models
- Hossep Dolatian (Stony Brook University)
- Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University)
Abstract
Reduplication is a theoretically and typologically well-studied phenomenon, but there is no database of reduplication patterns which include explicit computational models. This paper introduces RedTyp, an SQL database which provides a computational resource that can be used by both theoretical and computational linguists who work on reduplication. It catalogs 138 reduplicative morphemes across 91 languages, which are modeled with 57 distinct finite-state machines. The finite-state machines are 2-way transducers, which provide an explicit, compact, and convenient representation for reduplication patterns, and which arguably capture the linguistic generalizations more directly than the more commonly used 1-way transducers for modeling natural language morphophonology.
Keywords: reduplication;2-way finite state transducer;2-way fst; database;, reduplication, 2-way finite state transducer, 2-way fst, database,
How to Cite:
Dolatian, H. & Heinz, J., (2019) “RedTyp: A Database of Reduplication with Computational Models”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2(1), 8-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/ckx7-s770
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