This paper reconsiders the moraic status of coda consonants in Somali. It is argued that Somali joins a growing list languages presenting challenge to Moraic Uniqueness Hypothesis. Several phenomena are explored suggest exhibits mismatches whereby moras associated with segments different types contribute to, or “count” differently for particular phonological processes. Evidence support this pro...

This paper examines two domains in which phonology may exert an influence on morphology: suppletive allomorph selection and affix ordering. Cross-linguistic facts about both phenomena are examined and ultimately argued to provide evidence for a phonology-morphology interface in which morphology precedes phonology at each level of the grammar in a cyclic-type approach, and phonological condition...

The formation of wh-questions in Northern Norwegian seems to be an example of a syntactic phenomenon which necessarily refers to phonological structure, namely the prosodic weight of the wh-expression. The subject and verb are ‘inverted’ after polysyllabic wh-expressions, but they are not inverted after monosyllabic ones. These data are discussed in the context of Pullum & Zwicky’s (1988) hypot...

Phonology typically describes speech in terms of discrete signs like features. The field of intonational phonology uses discrete accents to describe intonation and prosody. But, are such representations useful? The results of mimicry experiments indicate that discrete signs are not a useful representation of the shape of intonation contours. Human behaviour seems to be better represented by a a...

This chapter provides an overview of how rendaku has been analyzed in the history of generative phonology, the mainstream framework of theoretical phonology. As we will observe, theoretical analyses of rendaku have been developed in tandem with the development of phonological theory. Therefore, rendaku has been analyzed within a theoretical framework that was dominant during that era. Concretel...

Aims and objectives: This paper first aims to examine how young Gaelic-English bilinguals in immersion education produce aspects of Gaelic phonology. We second consider the extent which they acquire a traditional dialect. Third, we investigate new speakers outside community negotiate place identity authenticity. Methodology: Our methodology consists quantitative acoustic auditory phonetic analy...

While connectionist models are ubiquitous in psycholinguistic approaches to language processing, they are less well-known as generative models of grammar. This work surveys a body of literature in which connectionist models have been developed to address problems central to generative phonology. The focus is on explaining to the newcomer precisely how these models work, and in particular how th...

We have participated in the open tracks and closed tracks on four corpora of Chinese word segmentation tasks in CIPSSIGHAN-2010 Bake-offs. In our experiments, we used the Chinese inner phonology information in all tracks. For open tracks, we proposed a double hidden layers’ HMM (DHHMM) in which Chinese inner phonology information was used as one hidden layer and the BIO tags as another hidden l...