Title: FROM A RULE-BASED MODEL TO A CONSTRAINT-BASED MODEL
Abstract:In the late 1950us, Noam Chomsky and Moris Halle broke new ground by introducing the Generative School of Phonology. This school beleives that phonological structure echoes the linguistic competence o...In the late 1950us, Noam Chomsky and Moris Halle broke new ground by introducing the Generative School of Phonology. This school beleives that phonological structure echoes the linguistic competence of the speakers of particular langauges. Speakers are able to compute a phonetic representation for the infinite number of sentences generated by the grammar. Generative phonology consists of five crucial components-levels of phonological representation (underlying form and surface form), phonological rules, derivations, distinctive features, and linearity. In this paper, two generative phonological models are examined. Even though a constraint-based model or Optimality Theory (OT) can solve the duplication problem, a rule-based model still exists for some reasons. This study does not intend to identify which model is the better between the two. Rather, both models account for phonological alternations in differnt ways. Key words : phonology, Optimality Theory, rules-based model, phonological alternations, English plural suffixesRead More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-23
Language: en
Type: article
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