Computational Restrictions on Iterative Prosodic Processes

Abstract

We formalize various iterative prosodic processes including stress, syllabification and epenthesis using logical graph transductions, showing that the necessary use of fixed point operators without quantification restricts them to a structured subclass of subsequential functions.

Type
Publication
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology
Jon Rawski
Jon Rawski
Assistant Professor of Linguistics