Finite-state Model of Shupamem Reduplication

Magdalena Markowska, Jeffrey Heinz, Owen Rambow


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 finite-state model of its morpho-syntax and morphophonology: how to manage the full reduplication and 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). 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.
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2021.sigmorphon-1.23
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Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
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August
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2021
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Online
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Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Ryan Cotterell
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SIGMORPHON
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SIGMORPHON
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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212–221
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigmorphon-1.23
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.sigmorphon-1.23
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Magdalena Markowska, Jeffrey Heinz, and Owen Rambow. 2021. Finite-state Model of Shupamem Reduplication. In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 212–221, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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