autosegmental

Adjective

Meaning

(phonology) Of or pertaining to autosegments.

(phonology) Of or pertaining to autosegmental phonology, a framework of phonological analysis that views phonological representations as consisting of parallel tiers of segments, rather than just one linear sequence of segments.

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As a theory of phonological representation, autosegmental phonology developed a formal account of ideas that had been sketched in earlier work by several linguists, notably Bernard Bloch (1948), Charles Hockett (1955) and J. R. Firth (1948). Source: Internet

Examples Place assimilation in nasals Place assimilation in nasals The autosegmental formalism can be especially useful in describing assimilation rules. Source: Internet

In the autosegmental formalism, this is depicted by placing the binary subfeature at a horizontal offset from the unary feature and connecting them with a line. Source: Internet

Many of the most interesting predictions of the autosegmental model derive from the automatic effects of the Well-formedness Condition and their independence of language-particular rules. Source: Internet

Structure of autosegmental rules The autosegmental formalism departs from the depiction of segments as matrices of features in order to show segments as connected groups of individual features. Source: Internet

There is a close relationship between analysis of segments into distinctive features and an autosegmental analysis; each feature in a language appears on exactly one tier. Source: Internet

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