BACKGROUND: Accentuation in Japanese loanword phonology has been an area of controversy. Previous linguists such as McCawley (1968) have suggested a traditional mora-based generalization: loanword accentuation in Japanese has a basic default pattern on the syllable containing the antepenultimate mora; while others claim that Japanese loanword accentuation follows the Latin stress rule (Kubozono...

In (Enciso and Mora, 2002) we introduce the Functional Dependencies Data Dictionary (FD3) as an architecture to facilitate the integration of database Systems. We propose the use of logics based on the notion of Functional Dependencies (FD) to allows formal specification of the objects of a data model and to conceive future automated treatment. The existence of a FD logic provides a formal lang...

This paper presents a phonological account of consonant-tone sequence restrictions in Thai, positing a pair of new constraints, *[+CG]-[H]μ2 and LIC-T-Rt. *[+CG]-[H]μ2 restricts sequences of consonants and tones non-locally, referring instead to the notion of “head mora” of a syllable. LIC-T-Rt prefers a single tone to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned. Previous phonological accounts [9...

The results of word counting in text depend on the level of its linguistic annotation. If a text can is regarded as a sequence of alphabetic character strings, without any information on their possible linguistic interpretation we are talking about the rough text. Some quantitative characteristics of texts can be obtained by the application of formal operations on a rough text, but these result...

1 A challenge for OT 1.1 Compensatory lengthening as weight conservation Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position — typically an onset — and the vacated mora, instead of being lost, is retained with new content (Hayes 1989). Compensatory lengthening is most often triggered by the deletion ...

Japanese is crucially different from other ‘accent languages’ in having a number of ‘unaccented words’, or words that are pronounced with a rather flat F0 contour. This paper illuminates some phonological factors responsible for the emergence of this peculiar type of word accent in Tokyo Japanese. It demonstrates, specifically, that unaccentedness emerges in words of some specific syllable stru...