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ROA 966-0408

Three Correlates of the Typological Frequency of Quantity-Insensitive Stress Systems

Max Bane <bane at uchicago.edu>
Jason Riggle <jriggle at uchicago.edu>

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Abstract:
We examine the typology of quantity-insensitive (QI) stress
systems and ask to what extent an existing optimality theoretic
model of QI stress can predict
the observed typological frequencies of stress patterns.
We find three
significant correlates of pattern attestation and frequency:
the trigram
entropy of a pattern, the degree to which it is ``confusable''
with other
patterns predicted by the model, and the number of constraint
rankings that
specify the pattern.

Comments: Draft of version to appear in the 2008 Proceedings of The Tenth Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics' Special Interest Group in Morphology and Phonology
Keywords: typology, typological frequency, stress, quantity-insensitive, accent, entropy, r-volume
Areas: Phonology,Computation
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

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