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.- Anthology ID:
- W19-4708
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Borin, Adam Jatowt, Yang Xu
- Venue:
- LChange
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 67–70
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-4708
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-4708
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- Modeling Markedness with a Split-and-Merger Model of Sound Change (Ceolin & Sayeed, LChange 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-2024-clasp/W19-4708.pdf