1 Introduction Phonological patterns, whether viewed synchronically or as they change over time, can be explained only with reference to the larger system of oppositions that they are part of. This was the fundamental insight of modern phonology at the beginning of the last century, as it developed under the hands of de Saussure, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, and others, in opposition to the atomistic ...

Recent work in Harmonic Serialism (HS) has led to new insights into several outstanding problems in phonology. The gradual, serial optimization inherent to HS offers novel perspectives on the too-manyrepairs problem (McCarthy 2008a) and makes it possible to capture generalizations stated at intermediate levels of representation (McCarthy 2008b, Elfner to appear). This work has also highlighted ...

Mezzo is a computer program designed that procedurally writes Romantic-Era style music in real-time to accompany computer games. Leitmotivs are associated with game characters and elements, and mapped into various musical forms. These forms are distinguished by different amounts of harmonic tension and formal regularity, which lets them musically convey various states of markedness which corres...

Abstract In this paper, we propose treating alignment shift as a process of functional markedness reversal in the domain semantically transitive constructions. We illustrate how approach allows us to capture similarities between shifts Eskimo-Aleut and Western Austronesian languages, despite morphosyntactic differences their voice systems. Using three diagnostics (semantic transitivity, topic c...

This research aims to examine the Englyn meter in poetry of Celtic language (Medieval Welsh) that requires poetic texts conform an abstract prosodic template. counting regulates phonological constituency on same metric level hierarchy rather than metrical verse (the line). In main types meters, milwr and penfyr, units each line are constrained with a certain number syllables rhyme final syllabl...

This paper is about the relation between contrast and ‘prominent positions’ − i.e. onsets, stressed syllables, and root-initial syllables.1 A number of works have assumed that only one of the three logically possible relations between contrast and prominent positions exists: namely that contrasts in non-prominent positions are always a subset of those in prominent positions. This situation is i...