Feature-based allomorphy

  • Authors:
  • Hans-Ulrich Krieger;Hannes Pirker;John Nerbonne

  • Affiliations:
  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany;Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Holland

  • Venue:
  • ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Morphotactics and allomorphy are usually modeled in different components, leading to interface problems. To describe both uniformly, we define finite automata (FA) for allomorphy in the same feature description language used for morphotactics. Nonphonologically conditioned allomorphy is problematic in FA models but submits readily to treatment in a uniform formalism.