English syllabification as the interaction of markedness constraints
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19513296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy Alan Hall |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Pages | 1-36 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ZAS Papers in Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1435-9588 • E-ISSN: 1435-9588 |
| Publisher | University Library J. C. Senckenberg (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21248/zaspil.37.2004.244 |
| OpenAlex | W3118706371 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The present study offers an Optimality-Theoretic analysis of the syllabification of intervocalic consonants and glides in Modern English. It will be argued that the proposed syllabifications fall out from universal markedness constraints – all of which derive motivation from other languages – and a language-specific ranking. The analysis offered below is therefore an alternative to the traditional rule-based analyses of English syllabification, e.g. Kahn (1976), Borowsky (1986), Giegerich (1992, 1999) and to the Optimality-Theoretic treatment proposed by Hammond (1999), whose analysis requires several language-specific constraints which apparently have no cross-linguistic motivation
Linguistics · Markedness · Natural language processing · Optimality theory · Phonology · Syllabification · Syllable · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Artificial Intelligence
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