Dustin Bowers


2019

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Action-Sensitive Phonological Dependencies
Yiding Hao | Dustin Bowers
Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

This paper defines a subregular class of functions called the tier-based synchronized strictly local (TSSL) functions. These functions are similar to the the tier-based input-output strictly local (TIOSL) functions, except that the locality condition is enforced not on the input and output streams, but on the computation history of the minimal subsequential finite-state transducer. We show that TSSL functions naturally describe rhythmic syncope while TIOSL functions cannot, and we argue that TSSL functions provide a more restricted characterization of rhythmic syncope than existing treatments within Optimality Theory.

2017

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A Morphological Parser for Odawa
Dustin Bowers | Antti Arppe | Jordan Lachler | Sjur Moshagen | Trond Trosterud
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages