{"title":"On the Logical Complexity of Autosegmental Representations","authors":"Adam Jardine","doi":"10.18653/v1/W17-3403","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Autosegmental mapping from disjoint strings of tones and tone-bearing units, a commonly used mechanism in phonological analyses of tone patterns, is shown to not be definable in monadic second-order logic. This is abnormally complex in comparison to other phonological mappings, which have been shown to be monadic second-order definable. In contrast, generation of autosegmental structures from strings is demonstrated to be first-order definable.","PeriodicalId":133680,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics of Language","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mathematics of Language","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3403","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Autosegmental mapping from disjoint strings of tones and tone-bearing units, a commonly used mechanism in phonological analyses of tone patterns, is shown to not be definable in monadic second-order logic. This is abnormally complex in comparison to other phonological mappings, which have been shown to be monadic second-order definable. In contrast, generation of autosegmental structures from strings is demonstrated to be first-order definable.