Compiling sonority scales with obstruent vowels

Compiling sonority scales with obstruent vowels

Sonority-Driven Reduction

0. Combinations of Sonority and Stress In their analysis of Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber syllabification, Prince and Smolensky (1993) postulate that different types of prominence, such as sonority and syllabicity, should align—a phenomenon they term prominence alignment. This concept is implemented by Prince and Smolensky using families of inherently-ranked constraints that are derived from combini...

Sonority Based Syllable Segmentation

This paper proposes a new method for detecting syllable boundaries. It is based on the sonority and it uses the so-called Sonority Sequencing Principle for the boundary detection. As acoustic correlate of the phonological concept of sonority we use the regularities present in the spectrogram of the signal. By finding the maxima of the sonority function we will be finding the syllable nuclei, wh...

Compiling with continuations

This paper describes the Orbit Scheme optimizing compiler. Orbit was one of the first practical compilers for Scheme, whereas most existing Scheme compilers at the time were research prototypes. The paper walks us through the phases of the compiler, explaining design decisions along the way. The result of this research is a production-quality Scheme compiler. It generates code that is competiti...

The Sonority Hierarchy in Hungarian

Of course, if (2) holds, (1) and (3) are equivalent – but there might well be languages where (2) turns out to be false, but the other two statements are true. In fact, every language where consonant clusters are disallowed as codas but permitted as onsets is a counterexample to (2), and the same holds for those languages that allow complex codas but do not allow complex onsets. Before turning ...