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DISTANCE, VARIATION AND CHANCE IN PHONOLOGY: STOCHASTIC ASPECTS

DISTANCE, VARIATION AND CHANCE IN PHONOLOGY: STOCHASTIC ASPECTS EVANGELOS A. AFENDRAS, NICHOLAOS S. TZANNES, AND JEAN-GUY TRfiPANIER 1. INTRODUCTION In the present paper we present a probabilistic model of a sound pattern, several applications to the study of concrete problems in phonology, and an overview of possible further applications and refinements. Since a detailed account of the model is given elsewhere (Afendras and Tzannes 1969, 1970, 1971, 1971 a in press, Tzannes and Afendras 1971) we will put more emphasis on the applications and limit ourselves to a sketchy expose of the model. In some of the sections we also touch on pertinent notions of stochastic processes and Information theory. 2. THE STOCHASTIC MODEL OF A SOUND PATTERN 2.1 Pattern-stochastic process; features--random variables; segments-- random variable realizations As a first step we consider a sound pattern, with a collection of segments (phonemes) and the specification of these segments on a set of classificatory distinctive features. Although in our examples we have used distinctive features which are basically those of Jakobson, any componential System can be used, whether binary or not, acoustic or articulatory etc.1 We * An original version of this paper was presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, September 9, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Folia Linguistica de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
ISSN
0165-4004
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1614-7308
DOI
10.1515/flin.1973.6.1-2.1
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Abstract

EVANGELOS A. AFENDRAS, NICHOLAOS S. TZANNES, AND JEAN-GUY TRfiPANIER 1. INTRODUCTION In the present paper we present a probabilistic model of a sound pattern, several applications to the study of concrete problems in phonology, and an overview of possible further applications and refinements. Since a detailed account of the model is given elsewhere (Afendras and Tzannes 1969, 1970, 1971, 1971 a in press, Tzannes and Afendras 1971) we will put more emphasis on the applications and limit ourselves to a sketchy expose of the model. In some of the sections we also touch on pertinent notions of stochastic processes and Information theory. 2. THE STOCHASTIC MODEL OF A SOUND PATTERN 2.1 Pattern-stochastic process; features--random variables; segments-- random variable realizations As a first step we consider a sound pattern, with a collection of segments (phonemes) and the specification of these segments on a set of classificatory distinctive features. Although in our examples we have used distinctive features which are basically those of Jakobson, any componential System can be used, whether binary or not, acoustic or articulatory etc.1 We * An original version of this paper was presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, September 9,

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Folia Linguisticade Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1973

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