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A webapp for the syntax-prosody analyst working in Optimality Theory, with automated Gen, Con and Eval. Download build files from syntax-prosody-ot/build
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StrongStart categories #460

Closed jbellik closed 3 years ago

jbellik commented 3 years ago

Currently our StrongStart must be parameterized to some particular category. This is a deviation from Elfner's original definition:

11) STRONG-START: assign one violation mark for every prosodic constituent whose leftmost daughter constituent is lower in the Prosodic Hierarchy than its sister constituent immediately to its right: *(κn κn+1 … (after Selkirk 2011)

We should probably revise this.

jbellik commented 3 years ago

We should also consider a revision of StrongStartClitic, in line with the original definition that doesn't require a choice of parent category:

Original framing from Bennett, Elfner, McCloskey 2016: STRONG START Prosodic constituents above the level of the word should not have at their left edge an immediate subconstituent that is prosodically dependent. For our purposes here, a ‘‘prosodically dependent’’ constituent is any prosodic unit smaller than the word.