Variable Word-Final Vowel Deletion And Reduction In Gurmancema: A Maximum Entropy Model
| dc.contributor.author | Baird, Maggie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-19T07:20:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-19T07:20:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-10-28 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Gurmancema (Gur, Burkina Faso) displays an overall dispreference for word-final tense vowels phrase-medially. On the surface, there is vowel reduction and vowel deletion, which vary both across and within phonological contexts. This work will provide an overview of the complex data patterns and describe a weighted constraint approach to the data patterns using a Maximum Entropy Harmonic Grammar. Weighted constraints are preferred to ranked constraints due to variability in the data and to account for cases of constraint ganging, including superadditivity. | |
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| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3520567 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/864 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/911 | |
| dc.subject | Gurmancema | |
| dc.subject | Grammar | |
| dc.subject | maximum entropy model | |
| dc.subject | vowel | |
| dc.title | Variable Word-Final Vowel Deletion And Reduction In Gurmancema: A Maximum Entropy Model |