The Match-Extend serialization algorithm in Multiprecedence

Raimy (1999; 2000a; 2000b) proposed a graphical formalism for modeling reduplication, originallymostly focused on phonological overapplication in a derivational framework. This framework is now known as Precedence-based phonology or Multiprecedence phonology. Raimy's idea is that the segments at the input to the phonology are not totally ordered by precedence. This paper tackles a challenge that arose with Raimy's work, the development of a deterministic serialization algorithm as part of the derivation of surface forms. The Match-Extend algorithm introduced here requires fewer assumptions and sticks tighter to the attested typology. The algorithm also contains no parameter or constraint specific to individual graphs or topologies, unlike previous proposals. Match-Extend requires nothing except knowing the last added set of links.

Sample-efficient Linguistic Generalizations through Program Synthesis: Experiments with Phonology Problems

Neural models excel at extracting statistical patterns from large amounts of data, but struggle to learn patterns or reason about language from only a few examples. In this paper, we ask: Can we learn explicit rules that generalize well from only a few examples? We explore this question using program synthesis. We develop a synthesis model to learn phonology rules as programs in a domain-specific language. We test the ability of our models to generalize from few training examples using our new dataset of problems from the Linguistics Olympiad, a challenging set of tasks that require strong linguistic reasoning ability. In addition to being highly sample-efficient, our approach generates human-readable programs, and allows control over the generalizability of the learnt programs.

Critics of The Linguistic Anthropology in the twentieth century Linguistic relativism and the postmodern legacy

The Linguistic Anthropology process many problematic thoughts , this problematic are all related with the arrangement which we can study language by its reveal. So, as we well see this essay is arguing in methods , ideas and theories which discuss the language matter and linguistic phenomenon as its formation in the philosophical and scientific field, and if we could get to an arrangement overrule the Linguistic relation as its independence of talking man , and we will try to expose the structuralism and other linguistic turns in the twentieth century ,and its methods , and the social historical order which had stand in the face of the dominance the imperialism thinking , which distort the linguistic phenomena and distance this phenomena of society .