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/[step [] Syntactic Cycle Example [] Use SPE-EX.MAX to run this. [] Examples (59), (60) from Sound Pattern of English [] One unfortunate side effect of this example is to show how inadequate the IBM character set is. The abbreviations that follow are required to make the enormous rule 50 fit without 'folding'. [] First some labels ][Adj Vb=# ]['==_ [] Let C° be the C subscript 0 (° is char 248 of IBM) ][C=={+cons} ][C°==(C(C)) [] Let U be a lax vowel, ok? ][V=={-cons+voc} ][U=={-cons+voc-tns} ][X==... /[gen4 [] ][ssc- [> Main Syntactic Cycle 1-->2 [] Rule 50 - English Main Stress Rule ][mcpi+ V0 --> V1 / [X__{| C° U' (C) ({αcons αvoc -ant}) |}{| +C° U' C° N] |} {| C° |}{| +C° U' C° Adj] |} {| U' C° N] |} {| ] |} [] Rule 51 - Alternating Stress Rule V' --> V1 / __ C° V' C° V1 C° {|N |} ] {|Adj|} {|Vb |} ][mcpi- [] The old 1 stress needs to come down 1 --> 2 / 1 X __ [] Rule 52 - Stress Adjustment Rule 4 --> 0 3 --> 4 2 --> 3 <] [] These are the base forms from examples 59 and 60 on pp 88,89 of SPE [] << [N [Adj [N Θe0æ0tr N] i0k + æ0l Adj] i0 + ti0 N] [] << [N [Vb i0nde0mn + i0 + fI0k Vb] A0t + i0^0n N] [] For theatricality to work, the [,] in the rules must be understood as [] the maximal categorial projection of the current cycle. Without this [] no deal. Try changing the scope of mcpi wrt rules 50 and 51 to see [] what this convention entails. (mcpi could be outside the [>,<] cycle.) /[show