Ezer Rasin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1610243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ezer Rasin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ezer |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasin |
| SIGNATURE | RASIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8980-5566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Optimal Paradigms
This paper reevaluates Optimal Paradigms (OP), an extension to Optimality Theory proposed by McCarthy (2005). In OP, candidates are full inflectional paradigms and faithfulness constraints can require uniformity between all members within a paradigm. McCarthy (2005) proposed that OP can replace the assumption that prosodic templates are grammatical entities and other phonological mechanisms, which he regards as stipulations. One of the case studi…
An overview of phonological interactions in Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic
Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic is an endangered Jewish variety of Arabic (Semitic) spoken in Israel by Jews who immigrated from Baghdad. In this paper, we provide an overview of the phonological system of this variety, focusing on the interactions between its supra-segmental phonological processes. In particular, we describe new instances of opaque interactions that are known to pose a challenge to classical Optimality Theory and to some of its extensions…
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua
Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments
In nonderived environment blocking (NDEB), a phonological process applies across morpheme boundaries or morpheme-internally when fed by another phonological process but is otherwise blocked. I present a theory of NDEB that attributes blocking to an interaction between morpheme structure constraints (which constrain possible underlying representations in the lexicon) and the usual phonological mapping from underlying to surface forms. The theory h…
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity
This squib proposes to extend the traditional taxonomy of pairwise process interactions (which contains “feeding,” “bleeding,” “counterfeeding,” and “counterbleeding”) to include the classes “shifting” and “countershifting.” A process “shifts” another if it does not feed or bleed it but rather causes it to apply in a different way. “Countershifting” is the opaque counterfactual inverse of shifting, and it fills a terminological gap identified by …
The nature of the semantic stimulus
We evaluate the richness of the child's input in semantics and its relation to the hypothesis space available to the child. Our case study is the acquisition of the universal quantifierevery. We report two main findings regarding the acquisition ofeveryon the basis of a corpus study of child-directed and child-ambient speech. Our first finding is that the input in semantics (as opposed to the input in syntax or phonology) is rich enough to system…
A conditional learnability argument for constraints on underlying representations
We explore the implications of a particular approach to learning for an architectural question in phonology. The learning approach follows the principle of Minimum Description Length (MDL), which has recently been used for learning in both constraint-based and rule-based phonology. The architectural question on which we focus is whether the grammar allows language-specific statements to be made at the level of the lexicon, as was assumed in early…
Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation
Analyses of scope reconstruction typically fall into two competing approaches: ‘semanticreconstruction’, which derives non-surface scope using semantic mechanisms, and ‘syntacticreconstruction’, which derives it by positing additional syntactic representations at thelevel of Logical Form. Grosu and Krifka (2007) proposed a semantic-reconstruction analysisfor relative clauses like the gifted mathematician that Dan claims he is, in which the relati…
A Rule-ordering Theory of Blocking in Nonderived Environments
In Nonderived Environment Blocking (NDEB), a phonological process applies across morpheme boundaries or morpheme-internally when fed by another phonological process but is otherwise blocked from applying. NDEB poses a challenge to both rule-based phonology and Optimality Theory: if P is a process that is blocked in nonderived environments, the challenge in both frameworks is to partition the set of environments of application of P into two subset…
On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory
We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms. We wish to model aspects of knowledge such as the English-speaking child's knowledge that the aspiration of the first segment of khæt is predictable and the French-speaking child's knowledge that the final l of table 'table' is optional and can be deleted while that of parle 'speak' cannot. We s…
On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory
We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms. We wish to model aspects of knowledge such as the English-speaking child's knowledge that the aspiration of the first segment of khæt is predictable and the French-speaking child's knowledge that the final l of table 'table' is optional and can be deleted while that of parle 'speak' cannot. We s…
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity
This squib proposes to extend the traditional taxonomy of pairwise process interactions (which contains “feeding,” “bleeding,” “counterfeeding,” and “counterbleeding”) to include the classes “shifting” and “countershifting.” A process “shifts” another if it does not feed or bleed it but rather causes it to apply in a different way. “Countershifting” is the opaque counterfactual inverse of shifting, and it fills a terminological gap identified by …
The nature of the semantic stimulus
We evaluate the richness of the child's input in semantics and its relation to the hypothesis space available to the child. Our case study is the acquisition of the universal quantifierevery. We report two main findings regarding the acquisition ofeveryon the basis of a corpus study of child-directed and child-ambient speech. Our first finding is that the input in semantics (as opposed to the input in syntax or phonology) is rich enough to system…
A Rule-ordering Theory of Blocking in Nonderived Environments
In Nonderived Environment Blocking (NDEB), a phonological process applies across morpheme boundaries or morpheme-internally when fed by another phonological process but is otherwise blocked from applying. NDEB poses a challenge to both rule-based phonology and Optimality Theory: if P is a process that is blocked in nonderived environments, the challenge in both frameworks is to partition the set of environments of application of P into two subset…
On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory
We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms. We wish to model aspects of knowledge such as the English-speaking child's knowledge that the aspiration of the first segment of khæt is predictable and the French-speaking child's knowledge that the final l of table 'table' is optional and can be deleted while that of parle 'speak' cannot. We s…
Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation
Analyses of scope reconstruction typically fall into two competing approaches: ‘semanticreconstruction’, which derives non-surface scope using semantic mechanisms, and ‘syntacticreconstruction’, which derives it by positing additional syntactic representations at thelevel of Logical Form. Grosu and Krifka (2007) proposed a semantic-reconstruction analysisfor relative clauses like the gifted mathematician that Dan claims he is, in which the relati…
A conditional learnability argument for constraints on underlying representations
We explore the implications of a particular approach to learning for an architectural question in phonology. The learning approach follows the principle of Minimum Description Length (MDL), which has recently been used for learning in both constraint-based and rule-based phonology. The architectural question on which we focus is whether the grammar allows language-specific statements to be made at the level of the lexicon, as was assumed in early…
The nature of the semantic stimulus
We evaluate the richness of the child's input in semantics and its relation to the hypothesis space available to the child. Our case study is the acquisition of the universal quantifierevery. We report two main findings regarding the acquisition ofeveryon the basis of a corpus study of child-directed and child-ambient speech. Our first finding is that the input in semantics (as opposed to the input in syntax or phonology) is rich enough to system…
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity
This squib proposes to extend the traditional taxonomy of pairwise process interactions (which contains “feeding,” “bleeding,” “counterfeeding,” and “counterbleeding”) to include the classes “shifting” and “countershifting.” A process “shifts” another if it does not feed or bleed it but rather causes it to apply in a different way. “Countershifting” is the opaque counterfactual inverse of shifting, and it fills a terminological gap identified by …
Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments
In nonderived environment blocking (NDEB), a phonological process applies across morpheme boundaries or morpheme-internally when fed by another phonological process but is otherwise blocked. I present a theory of NDEB that attributes blocking to an interaction between morpheme structure constraints (which constrain possible underlying representations in the lexicon) and the usual phonological mapping from underlying to surface forms. The theory h…
An overview of phonological interactions in Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic
Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic is an endangered Jewish variety of Arabic (Semitic) spoken in Israel by Jews who immigrated from Baghdad. In this paper, we provide an overview of the phonological system of this variety, focusing on the interactions between its supra-segmental phonological processes. In particular, we describe new instances of opaque interactions that are known to pose a challenge to classical Optimality Theory and to some of its extensions…
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua
Optimal Paradigms
This paper reevaluates Optimal Paradigms (OP), an extension to Optimality Theory proposed by McCarthy (2005). In OP, candidates are full inflectional paradigms and faithfulness constraints can require uniformity between all members within a paradigm. McCarthy (2005) proposed that OP can replace the assumption that prosodic templates are grammatical entities and other phonological mechanisms, which he regards as stipulations. One of the case studi…
Linguistics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Phonology (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Optimality theory (4 works)