The field of generative metrics attempts to characterize the tacit knowledge of fluent participants in a metrical tradition. An adequate metrical analysis will characterize the set of phonological structures constituting well-formed verse in a particular tradition and meter. Structures that meet this criterion are termed metrical. An adequate analysis will also specify differences of complexity...

In this paper I discuss the theoretical implications of a vowel height transfer in Esimbi for three current issues in the analysis of featural phenomena in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Esimbi exhibits a remarkable surface distribution of vowels: a greater number of vowel height contrasts occur in prefixes than in roots. On the face of it, this appears to belie the generalizati...

In this thesis, I present an associative diagram algebra that is a faithful representation of a particular Temperley–Lieb algebra of type affine C, which has a basis indexed by the fully commutative elements of the Coxeter group of the same type. The Coxeter group of type affine C contains an infinite number of fully commutative elements, and so the corresponding Temperley–Lieb algebra is of in...

The Markov condition describes the conditional independence relations present in a causal model that are consequent to its graphical structure, whereas the faithfulness assumption presumes that there are no other independencies in the model. Cartwright argues that causal inference methods have limited applicability because the Markov condition cannot always be applied to domains, and gives an e...

0. Introduction In several Latin American dialects, Spanish obstruent consonants participate in a process of partial voicing assimilation when they appear in syllable final position. (1) /raskar/ à [rÜ as.kar] 'to scratch' /rasgar/ à [rÜ as z .Far] 1 'to rip' /admirar/ à [aD.mi.rar] 'to admire' /adxuntar/ à [aD T .xun5 .tar] 'to adjoin' In this paper, I develop a novel analysis of this process ...