Metrical Grids and Generalized Tier Projection
- Yiding Hao (Yale University)
Abstract
This paper formalizes metrical grid theory (MGT, Prince, 1983; Hayes, 1995) and studies its expressive power. I show that MGT analyses of a certain form can describe stress systems beyond the input tier-based input strictly local functions proposed by Hao and Andersson (2019), but conjecture that such analyses do not describe systems beyond the input tier-based strictly local languages of Baek (2018). These results reveal fundamental differences between the three formalisms.
Keywords: subregular phonology, subregular, phonology, stress, tier-based strictly local, functions, transductions, metrical grid theory, abkhaz, unbounded stress, culminativity, mathematical linguistics
How to Cite:
Hao, Y., (2020) “Metrical Grids and Generalized Tier Projection”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 3(1), 261-271. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.1227
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