2014/08/01 by Öner Özçelik · 2 citations
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Mathematics · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Morpheme #Grammar #Turkish #Foot (prosody) #Stress (linguistics) #Linguistics #Constraint (computer-aided design) #Computer science #Parsing #Speech recognition #Natural language processing #Artificial intelligence #Mathematics #Philosophy #Geometry
paper · doi:10.1017/s0952675714000128
openalex publication_date 2014/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/04
This paper presents a novel approach to capturing exceptional stress that relies on prespecification of foot edges in the input. Focusing on Turkish, this approach accounts for both regular and exceptional stress in a unified manner and within a single grammar, and unlike other approaches, does not overpredict. On this account, Turkish is a footless, but trochaic, language. Both regular and exceptional Turkish morphemes are subject to the same constraint ranking; exceptional morphemes are different only in that they have one or more syllables already footed in the input, although the type of foot (e.g. trochaicity, binarity) is determined by the constraints of the grammar. As regular morphemes vacuously satisfy these constraints (which act on the foot), trochees appear on the surface only if there is an input foot available (i.e. in words with exceptional morphemes), since the grammar itself has no apparatus to parse syllables into feet.