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A probabilistic approach to stress assignment in Arabic

Abstract

Unlike previous rule/constraint-based analyses, this study approaches the stress system in Arabic from a completely probabilistic perspective. In this view of language, the stress system can be understood as interaction between various relevant types of conditioning factors for stress, which is given comprehensive quantitative description in this study. Using this statistical information, a probabilistic language model is constructed to simulate and examine whether stress could be acquired purely by learning from the statistical information without any presumed rules or constraints. The simulation results show that the probabilistic language model is very successful in acquiring stress in Arabic, which in turn gives strong support for a probabilistic view on stress acquisition and its viability as a language learning mechanism in general.

Abstract

Unlike previous rule/constraint-based analyses, this study approaches the stress system in Arabic from a completely probabilistic perspective. In this view of language, the stress system can be understood as interaction between various relevant types of conditioning factors for stress, which is given comprehensive quantitative description in this study. Using this statistical information, a probabilistic language model is constructed to simulate and examine whether stress could be acquired purely by learning from the statistical information without any presumed rules or constraints. The simulation results show that the probabilistic language model is very successful in acquiring stress in Arabic, which in turn gives strong support for a probabilistic view on stress acquisition and its viability as a language learning mechanism in general.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Phonetics and phonology
  6. How to delete 7
  7. Are there transfer effects in the Arabic comparative? 33
  8. Gemination in Rural Jordanian Arabic 53
  9. Part II. Syntax
  10. On complex adjectival phrases in Standard Arabic 79
  11. The syntax of negative coordination in Jordanian Arabic 93
  12. Huwwa 113
  13. Syntactic parallels between verbal and nominal φ-morphology in Classical Arabic 133
  14. Part III. Experimental and computational linguistics
  15. Resumption ameliorates different islands differentially 159
  16. A probabilistic approach to stress assignment in Arabic 195
  17. Subject index 219
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX
https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.7.10lin

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Phonetics and phonology
  6. How to delete 7
  7. Are there transfer effects in the Arabic comparative? 33
  8. Gemination in Rural Jordanian Arabic 53
  9. Part II. Syntax
  10. On complex adjectival phrases in Standard Arabic 79
  11. The syntax of negative coordination in Jordanian Arabic 93
  12. Huwwa 113
  13. Syntactic parallels between verbal and nominal φ-morphology in Classical Arabic 133
  14. Part III. Experimental and computational linguistics
  15. Resumption ameliorates different islands differentially 159
  16. A probabilistic approach to stress assignment in Arabic 195
  17. Subject index 219
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