Modeling Markedness with a Split-and-Merger Model of Sound Change

Andrea Ceolin, Ollie Sayeed


Abstract
The concept of ‘markedness’ has been influential in phonology for almost a century. Theoretical phonology has found it useful to describe some segments as more ‘marked’ than others, referring to a cluster of language-internal and -external properties (Jakobson 1968, Haspelmath 2006). We argue, using a simple mathematical model based on Evolutionary Phonology (Blevins 2004), that markedness is an epiphenomenon of phonetically grounded sound change.
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W19-4708
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
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August
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Borin, Adam Jatowt, Yang Xu
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LChange
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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67–70
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-4708
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10.18653/v1/W19-4708
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Andrea Ceolin and Ollie Sayeed. 2019. Modeling Markedness with a Split-and-Merger Model of Sound Change. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 67–70, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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