Edited by Michael Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth
The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed… read more
Finite state approaches to phonology usually make use of transducers to model the mapping of input to output forms. This applies to both rule-based approaches and more recent approaches inspired by Optimality Theory. Here, we develop an alternative approach based on automata where phonological… read more
