The Typology and Modelling of Obstruent Lenition and Fortition Processes
The Typology and Modelling of Obstruent Lenition and Fortition Processes

Author: András Cser

Publisher: Akademiai Kiads

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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The author of this book attempts to establish a link between the notions of lenition and fortition on one hand, and the implicational hierarchy of obstruents on the other, through the property of sonority. Earlier theories of lenition and fortition are critically assessed and the typological patterning of obstruent systems is given thorough treatment. Crucial links between these two fields of phonological phenomena are discovered, empirically verified and phonologically explained. The hypothesis is tested against a corpus of diachronic phonological changes from a large number of languages and is further demonstrated through the detailed historical discussion of the obstruent systems of the Germanic languages. In the last chapter the author proposes a model for the representation of manner and place of phonological segments which explains the idiosyncratic behavior of palatal obstruents and correctly predicts a range of phenomena that originally fall outside the intended scope of the in

Systems Engineering in Context
Systems Engineering in Context

Author: Stephen Adams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-21

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 3030001148

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This volume chronicles the 16th Annual Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) held on May 8-9, 2018 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The CSER offers researchers in academia, industry, and government a common forum to present, discuss, and influence systems engineering research. It provides access to forward‐looking research from across the globe, by renowned academicians as well as perspectives from senior industry and government representatives. Co‐founded by the University of Southern California and Stevens Institute of Technology in 2003, CSER has become the preeminent event for researchers in systems engineering across the globe. Topics include though are not limited to the following: Systems in context: · Formative methods: requirements · Integration, deployment, assurance · Human Factors · Safety and Security Decisions/ Control & Design; Systems Modeling: · Optimization, Multiple Objectives, Synthesis · Risk and resiliency · Collaborative autonomy · Coordination and distributed decision-making Prediction: · Prescriptive modeling; state estimation · Stochastic approximation, stochastic optimization and control Integrative Data engineering: · Sensor Management · Design of Experiments