{"product_id":"9781581121780","title":"A Computational Phonology Of Russian","description":"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%. \u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecondly, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal-Publishers.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060570669296,"sku":"9781581121780","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781581121780_p0.jpg?v=1763802675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781581121780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}