id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_cbatoisvt5acjgjv5wrcdlslbe Richard Futrell A Generative Model of Phonotactics 2017 14 .pdf application/pdf 8973 822 59 We present a probabilistic model of phonotactics, the set of well-formed phoneme sequences in a language. we take a fully generative approach, modeling a process where forms are built up out structured as an and-or graph, based on concepts of feature hierarchy from generative Second, our system can represent phonotactic generalizations not only at the level of fully specified segments, but also allows the storage and reuse of subsegments, inspired by the autosegments and class feature for vowels by structuring the generative process as below, so that the LATERAL or-node is only Our use of and-or graphs and lexical memoization to model inter-feature dependencies is inspired by work in phonology on distinctiveness this limitation, structure-building models of phonotactics have not generally included rich featural interactions. dependency graphs (Section 2.1), class node structure (Section 2.2), and tier-based conditioning (Section 2.4)— contributes to the ability of the model to ./cache/work_cbatoisvt5acjgjv5wrcdlslbe.pdf ./txt/work_cbatoisvt5acjgjv5wrcdlslbe.txt