Abstract
This paper presents a computational account of three tone sandhi rules in Tianjin Chinese that have received a lot of attention in the literature due to the seemingly complex way in which they interact. Two of the rules apply right-to-left while the third applies left-to-right, making it difficult for both rule- and constraint-based formalisms to account for the interaction in a unified way. In the computational framework advocated for in this paper, the apparent difference in directionality of the three rules amounts to a subtle difference in computational classification: the left-to-right rule has the property of input strict locality (ISL) while the right-to-left rules share the property of output strict locality (OSL). However, the fact that the direction of rules with the ISL property doesn’t actually matter, a unified account becomes possible in that all three rules can be modeled as a single input-output strictly local function.
Highlights
This paper presents a computational analysis of three tone sandhi rules in Tianjin Chinese that have received a lot of attention in the previous literature (Chen, 1986; Zhang, 1987; Tan, 1987; Hung, 1987; Chen, 2000; Lin, 2008; Wee, 2010)
The terms right output strict locality (ROSL) and input strictly local (ISL) will be defined ; input-output strictly local (IOSL) will be introduced in the analysis that follows
The computational analysis presented above has shown that the difference in application of the three tone sandhi rules in Tianjin amounts to a difference in computational classification, with one rule being ISL and the other two output strictly local (OSL)
Summary
This paper presents a computational analysis of three tone sandhi rules in Tianjin Chinese that have received a lot of attention in the previous literature (Chen, 1986; Zhang, 1987; Tan, 1987; Hung, 1987; Chen, 2000; Lin, 2008; Wee, 2010). The interest in these particular rules stems from the seemingly complex manner in which they interact, in that they apply in different directions.
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