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Finite-state Model of Shupamem Reduplication

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Shupamem, a language of Western Cameroon, is a tonal language which also exhibits the morpho-phonological process of full reduplication. This creates two challenges for a finitestate model of its morpho-syntax and morphophonology: how to manage the full reduplication, as well as the autosegmental nature of lexical tone. Dolatian and Heinz (2020) explain how 2-way finite-state transducers can model full reduplication without an exponential increase in states, and finite-state transducers with multiple tapes have been used to model autosegmental tiers, including tone (Wiebe, 1992; Dolatian and Rawski, 2020a; Rawski and Dolatian, 2020). Here we synthesize 2-way finite-state transducers and multitape transducers, resulting in a finite-state formalism that subsumes both, to account for the full reduplicative processes in Shupamem which also affect tone.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGMORPHON 2021 - 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsGarrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Ryan Cotterell
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages212-221
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085626
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, SIGMORPHON 2021 - Virtual, Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: Aug 5 2021 → …

Publication series

NameSIGMORPHON 2021 - 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, SIGMORPHON 2021
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityVirtual, Bangkok
Period08/5/21 → …

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