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dc.contributor.authorMerchant, Nazarré
dc.contributor.authorKrämer, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-20T12:04:13Z
dc.date.available2022-09-20T12:04:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractA moderately complex factorial typology may consist of tens or hundreds of languages which can opaquely encode linguistically salient categories and generalizations. We propose in this paper that these complex typologies can be decomposed and understood using what we call the holographic principle: a large typology can be projected onto simplified versions of itself which can be completely understood using Property Theory (Alber & Prince 2016). The simplified versions can then be re-incorporated into the original in such a way that the properties of the simple are maintained and provide a framework for analyzing the full system. In this paper, we demonstrate this technique using two systems, a basic stringency system (BSS), and a coda stringency system (CSS). We show how a complete analysis of BSS, using Property Theory, provides fundamental insights into the more complicated CSS which BSS is a simplification of. A property analysis is a set of properties that divide the languages of the typology in such a way that each language and its grammar can be identified uniquely by its property values. Such an analysis identifies the crucial rankings among constraints that distinguish all grammars of the typology so that languages that share property values share extensional traits.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMerchant N, Krämer M. The Holographic Principle: Typological analysis using lower dimensions. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. 2018en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1603603
dc.identifier.doi10.3765/amp.v5i0.4235
dc.identifier.issn2377-3324
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26872
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherLinguistic Society of Americaen_US
dc.relation.journalProceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2018 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleThe Holographic Principle: Typological analysis using lower dimensionsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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