Towards a non-arbitrary account of affricates and affrication
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article presents a novel account of affricates/affrication and palatalisation (and their interrelationship) in Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Québec French, as well as English and Korean, within a further development of Government Phonology. Several properties of those two phenomena follow from independently established assumptions of the theory, in particular on the internal structure of obstruents, the nature of coronality, the representation of vowel height, and the asymmetric behaviour of the elements I and U. Stopness is argued to be encoded structurally, as a relationship between two positions, and that relationship is broken up by the palatalising effect of the element I, the result of which is affrication. The conditions under which this happens fall in line with well-known properties of the triggers.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it