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Surface interpretation: morphophonemic and morphographemic mapping

The morphographemic mapping maps characters from the lexical level to the post-lexical level taking into account specific restrictions on character mapping at inflectional boundaries. In the general (default) case (the `elsewhere condition'), a DATR variable `$char' defines the identity mapping. Boundary diacritics are deleted. Theoretically this traditional use of boundary diacritics is not optimal, but a more adequate treatment would go beyond the scope of the paper.

Morphograph:
  <>       ==
  <+>      == <>
  <#+>     == <>
  <#>      == <>
  <##>     == <>
  <$char>  == $char <>
  <e + e>  == e <>
  <e #+ e> == e <>
  <y + s>  == i e s <>
  <y #+ s> == i e s <>
  <s #+ s> == s e s <>.

Very much like the morphographemic mapping, in the morphophonemic mapping, the plural morphophoneme `/Z' is realised dependent on its left context as one of tex2html_wrap_inline1558. Other segments, another case of the `elsewhere condition', are realised unchanged using a DATR variable `$phon'. Phonemes and (as with spelling) boundary diacritics are not the theoretically optimal choice for phonetic interpretation, but a full feature lattice treatment is not possible in the present context.

Morphophon:
  <>        ==
  <$phon>   == $phon
  <+>       == <>
  <#+>      == <>
  <#>       == <>
  <##>      == <>
  <p #+ /Z> == p s <>
  <t #+ /Z> == t s <>
  <k #+ /Z> == k s <>
  <f #+ /Z> == f s <>
  <T #+ /Z> == T z <>
  <s #+ /Z> == s I z <>
  <S #+ /Z> == S I z <>
  <z #+ /Z> == z I z <>
  <Z #+ /Z> == Z I z <>
  </Z>      == z <>.



Dafydd Gibbon
Fri Mar 21 14:01:22 MET 1997