Prototypical Predicates Have Unmarked Phonology

Prototypical Predicates Have Unmarked Phonology

Recent work recognizes that lexical category can be relevant for phonology, because phonological processes and phonotactics are sometimes category-sensitive (Smith 1997, 2001; Myers 2000; Bobaljik 2008; see also Cohen 1964; Chomsky & Halle 1968; Postal 1968; Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1977). Moreover, there are strong cross-linguistic tendencies concerning the nature of phonological differences be...

Phonology

Phonology is the systematic study of the sounds used in language, their internal structure, and their composition into syllables, words and phrases. Computational phonology is the application of formal and computational techniques to the representation and processing of phonological information. This chapter will present the fundamentals of descriptive phonology along with a brief overview of c...

Dynamic occupancy models in unmarked

Dynamic occupancy models (MacKenzie et al. 2003) allow inference about the occurrence of “things” at collections of “sites” and about how changes in occurrence are driven by colonization and local extinction. These models also account for imperfect detection probability. Depending on how “thing” and “site” are defined, occupancy may have vastly different biological meanings, including the prese...

Distance sampling analysis in unmarked

Distance sampling is a wildlife sampling technique used to estimate population size or density. Describing how density varies spatially is often of equal interest; however, conventional methods of analysis do not allow for explicit modeling of both density and detection probability. The function distsamp implements the multinomial-Poisson mixture model of Royle et al. (2004), which was develope...

The Plural Is Semantically Unmarked