A Computational Phonology of Russian

A Computational Phonology of Russian
Author: Peter Chew
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1581121784

This dissertation provides a coherent, synchronic, broad-coverage, generative phonology of Russian. I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. In taking this approach, I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. In most cases, the tests show that there are exceptions to the theory, but at least we know what the exceptions are, a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, and in most cases the percentage of exceptional cases is reduced to below 5%. The principal theoretical outcomes of the work are as follows. First, I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. Secondly, I exploit probabilistic constraints in the syllable structure grammar to explain why constraints on word-marginal onsets and codas are weaker than on word-internal onsets and codas. I argue that the features []/- initial] and []/- final], and extraprosodicity, are unnecessary for this purpose.

The Sound Pattern of Russian

The Sound Pattern of Russian
Author: Morris Halle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1971
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789027915610

No detailed description available for "The Sound Pattern of Russian".

The Phonetics of Russian

The Phonetics of Russian
Author: Daniel Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521153003

Intended to help those studying Russian to pronounce the language and to give students a knowledge of the phonetic system of Russian.