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On consonant sequences in Cayuga (Iroquoian)

2013· article· en· W1547908293 on OpenAlexaff
Carrie Dyck

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis (Memorial University of Newfoundland) · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhonotacticsSyllableConsonantMerge (version control)VerbLinguisticsSpeech recognitionWord (group theory)SyllabificationPhraseComputer scienceAlternation (linguistics)MathematicsPhonologyArtificial intelligenceVowel
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Abstract

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Underlying consonant sequences in Cayuga (and ill other Northernlroquoian languages) are apparently subject to phonotactic constraints. The non-randomness of underlying consonant sequences is problematic for Optimality-Theory (OT), which assumes that inputs are unconstrained (Prince & Smolensky 1993; Smolensky 1995). However, I show that apparent pllOnotactic constraints are the product of the interaction of output-based constraints: I claim that the output optimally conforms to a group of ranked constraints on syllable structure which conspire to produce a ev(v)e syllable template. The ev(v)C template predicts a maximum of two consonants word-medially; problematically, larger word-medial sequences exist. Nevertheless, the alternative of positing a larger template (such as eev(v)C) is undesirable: doing so predicts too few sites of epenthesis. Consequently, I adopt the smaller ev(v)C template and propose two explanations for the larger (3+) word-medial sequences: first, some larger sequences are subject to MERGE; that is, continuant segments in such sequences are phonetically realized as secondary articulations rather than as full segments. As a consequence, word-medial consonant sequences contain at most two stop segments (plus some continuant segments which are realized as secondary articulations). Second, exceptionally large consonant sequences containing three stops can be licenced in the Cayuga verb because the verb is a prosodic phrase (i/J) poten tially containing several prosodic words (w). Each prosodic word within the verb can have an appendix in which an extra (third) stop consonant can be licensed. In sumnzary, Cayuga has a ev(v)C template which licenses a maximum of 2 consonants word-medially; nevertheless, because of underparsing (MERGE) and verb-internal appendices, larger sequences can be realized within the verb.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.224
Threshold uncertainty score0.446

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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