A Computational Account of Tone Sandhi Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19572742 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Chandlee (0000-0001-9143-1305, Haverford College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2377-3324 • E-ISSN: 2377-3324 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/amp.v7i0.4572 |
| OpenAlex | W2948721932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper presents a computational account of three tone sandhi rules in Tianjin Chinese that have received a lot of attention in the literature due to the seemingly complex way in which they interact. Two of the rules apply right-to-left while the third applies left-to-right, making it difficult for both rule- and constraint-based formalisms to account for the interaction in a unified way. In the computational framework advocated for in this paper, the apparent difference in directionality of the three rules amounts to a subtle difference in computational classification: the left-to-right rule has the property of input strict locality (ISL) while the right-to-left rules share the property of output strict locality (OSL). However, the fact that the direction of rules with the ISL property doesn’t actually matter, a unified account becomes possible in that all three rules can be modeled as a single input-output strictly local function
Algorithm · Left and right · Linguistics · Locality · Rotation formalisms in three dimensions · Computer Science · Logic, programming, and type systems · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · semigroups and automata theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |