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This dissertation provides a coherent, synchronic, broad-coverage, generative phonology of Russian. I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. In taking this approach, I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. In most cases, the tests show that there are exceptions to the theory, but at least we know what the exceptions are, a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, and in most cases the percentage of exceptional cases is reduced to below 5%. The principal theoretical outcomes of the work are as follows. First, I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. Secondly, I exploit probabilistic constraints in the syllable structure grammar to explain why constraints on word-marginal onsets and codas are weaker than on word-internal onsets and codas. I argue that the features [+/- initial] and [+/- final], and extraprosodicity, are unnecessary for this purpose.

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• Full title: Computational Phonology of Russian
• Author: Peter A Chew
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428
• EAN: 9781581121780
• ISBN: 9781581121780
• ID: 08744006
• Publisher: Dissertation.Com. - Do Not Use
• Weight: 770 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 246 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2003

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