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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"underspecification"”.
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Underspecification in Korean Phonology (Morphology)
… and specifying only unpredictable features, underspecification system constrains possible types of phonological processes in a given grammar.
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Underspecification in Yawelmani phonology and morphology
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1984.
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Underspecification and parallel processing in sentence comprehension
… A radically different proposal is the strategic underspecification model by Swets et al. (2008). It assumes that readers do not attempt to resolve ambiguities unless it is absolutely necessary. In other words, they underspecify. According the strategic underspecification hypothesis, all attested …
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Computational Implementation of Underspecification Theories: Kiswahili Example
The differences between Radical Underspecification theory (RUT) and Contrastive Underspecification theory (CUT) have been discussed in the literature (for example Archangeli 1988, Mester and Ito 1989, Dikken and Hulst 1988) comparing various aspects of these theories. This dissertation presents a …
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Identifying and Minimizing Underspecification in Breast Cancer Subtyping
… on such datasets. This concept is known as underspecification.</p> <p>Underspecification has been more accepted as a concept in recent years, with a handful of recent works exploring underspecification in different applications and a handful of past works experiencing underspecification …
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Deverbal nominals in Kiswahili: Underspecification morphology and the lexicon
This study provides an explicit account of the lexical entries and rules required to generate five common types of Kiswahili nouns based on verbal roots and stems, as illustrated by the data below, all derived from -kata 'cut'. (UNFORMATTED TABLE OR EQUATION …
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Palatalization and jers in modern Russian phonology: An underspecification approach
… in phonology: nonlinear (syllable) theory, underspecification and lexical phonology. It is claimed: that some palatalized consonants are part of the underlying system of Russian; that there is no underlying /y/, but only high back nonround (y), a variant of /i/; that jers (""fleeting"" …
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Enabling streamlined life cycle assessment : materials-classification derived structured underspecification
… The streamlining method of probabilistic underspecification has shown initial success in its ability to reduce LCA efforts while simultaneously increasing certainty in the final impact assessment. Probabilistic underspecification streamlines LCA by prioritizing targets of more refined data …
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An Invisible Issue of Task Underspecification in Deep Reinforcement Learning Evaluations
… processes (point MDPs), stemming from task underspecification. A large class of DRL tasks, particularly in real-world decision problems, induce a family of MDPs, which---perhaps confusingly---each has the same high-level problem definition. As a demonstrative example, consider the classic …
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Exploring the viability of probabilistic underspecification as a viable streamlining method for LCA
… thesis proposes the evaluation of probabilistic underspecification in streamlining LCA and estimating a product's life cycle impact to both reduce LCA efforts and increase certainty in the results. This thesis focuses the development and application of probabilistic underspecification in …
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Construction of a classification hierarchy for process underspecification to streamline life-cycle assessment
… into a hierarchy based on their degree of underspecification. Simulations are performed using Oracle's Crystal Ball software to assess the usefulness and accuracy of the classification system. The system and its components are modified and tested again to achieve better results. Owing to …
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Evaluation of probabilistic underspecification as a method for incorporating uncertainty into comparative life cycle assessments
… also incorporates uncertainty is probabilistic underspecification. This method evaluates environmental parameters by dividing them into different material and process categories. The lowest level of specification, Level 1, is defined by the type of material or process, such as metal or freight …
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A domain-based approach to Northern Sotho tonology: A Setswapo dialect
… Approach Phonology, Autosegmental Phonology and Underspecification.
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Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning
… raises fatal problems for a prominent theory of underspecification defended by Jason Stanley, according to which all context- sensitivity (including unarticulated constituents) can be traced to covert variables in the syntax. I then use these findings to draw out important lessons for the …
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The phonetics and phonology of coronal markedness and unmarkedness
… to coronal versus noncoronal asymmetry-Coronal Underspecification, Underspecification by Constraints and Perceptually Grounded Faithfulness Constraints are discussed and their inadequacy is demonstrated.
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Vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean.
… (1983) in the case of Korean. By using radical underspecification and a hierarchical theory of feature structure as the framework of analysis, vowel harmony will be described as a feature spreading rule: spread (-ATR), and the transparency of neutral vowels in the harmonizing process will be …
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The application of separation indices to multistage systems
… outlet streams, i.e., both indices represent an underspecification of the single stage within a multistage system. A new index, E<sub>m</sub>= abs X₁₁/X₂₂ X₁₁/X₂₂ is proposed. The application of this new index to a multistage distillation process gives a much more realistic comparison of the …
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Syncope and Epenthesis in Levantine Arabic: A Nonlinear Approach
… different morphemes. The development of underspecification theory (Archangeli 1984) made it possible for the radical consonants and the vowels to be minimally specified in the lexicon, and for the phonological rules to apply and refer to tiers rather than the whole representations. In …
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Toward an integrated model of sentence processing in reading
… adaptive, resource-preserving mechanisms of underspecification are proposed both on the level of memory access and on the level of syntactic parsing. The thesis first investigates the model of cue-based retrieval in sentence comprehension of Lewis & Vasishth (2005) with a comprehensive …
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Advanced Tongue Root harmony in Setswana.
… of Autosegmental Phonology, incorporating Underspecification and Grounding Condition theory. It will be argued that grounded conditions hold of varying domains, with some conditions holding of all representations, while other conditions govern only the output of specific rules. (Abstract …
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