Learning Phonological Grammars for Output-Driven Maps

A candidate is an input, an output, and a correspondence relation between them. An input for a word is constructed from the underlying forms for the morphemes of the word. A candidate has a set of (zero or more) disparities. A disparity is a difference between the input and the output of a candidate, for example when corresponding segments differ in the value of a feature. The candidate shown in (1) has two disparities; the subscripts are IO correspondence indices. The corresponding segments with index 2 disagree in stress: the input segment is unstressed, while the output segment is stressed. The corresponding segments with index 4 disagree in length: the input segment is long, while the output segment is short.

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