Two Derivations Suffice: The Role of Syllabification in Cognitive Phonology

Abstract

This report contains three parts from an ongoing research project on connectionist phonology. The first introduces syllabification into our many maps processing model. The second shows how syllabification and a previously- described clustering mechanism can be used jointly to implement the stress assignment rules of a number of languages. The third paper describes a preliminary version of a phonological rule-learning program whose rule syntax is determined by the architecture of our model. Earlier work in connectionist phonology is described in reports CMU-CS-89-144: A Connectionist Implementation of Cognitive Phonology, CMU-CS-89-158: Rules and Maps in Connectionist Symbol Processing, and CMU-CS-90-112: Rules and Maps II: Recent Progress in Connectionist Symbol Processing. Keywords: Linguistics; Phonology; Natural language; Connectionist modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA225532

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  • David S. Touretzky
  • Deirdre W. Wheeler

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  • Carnegie Mellon University

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