Learner Results gram/prec (fsa)

This table diplays a list of representative languages, summaries of their primary and secondary stress patterns in the expanded SPCs (see 3) and phonotactic information, then present information about the learner results. This information is included in the following fields:

name

The `name' field contains the name of the representative language.

main

The `main' field contains the SPC(s) for the primary stress pattern(s) and in parentheses, the word size in which the pattern is valid. For example, Bhojpuri's entry under `main' is ``3R (4+), 2R (3-)'', meaning that in words of four or more syllables, primary stress is placed on the antepenultimate syllable, and in words of three or fewer syllables, primary stress is placed on the penultimate syllable.

secondary

The `secondary' field contains the SPC(s) for the secondary stress pattern(s) and in parentheses, the word size in which the pattern is valid. For example, Cayuvava's entry under `secondary' is ``None (2-), i3@3R (3+)'', meaning that in words of two or fewer syllables, there is no secondary stress, and in words of three or more syllalbes, secondary stress is placed iteratively on every third syllable counting from the antepenultimate syllable.

phonotactics

Any phonotactic information that is relevant to the representative language is listed in the `phonotactics' field.

2gram

The number in the `2gram' field indicates the smallest sample size a bigram learner needed in order to converge to the attested pattern. If the entry is 0, this means that no sample size will allow the learner to converge; the learner has failed. If the entry is greater than 0, then the pattern is Strictly 2-Local.

3gram

The number in the `3gram' field indicates the smallest sample size a trigram learner needed in order to converge to the attested pattern. If the entry is 0, this means that no sample size will allow the learner to converge; the learner has failed. If the entry is greater than 0, then the pattern is Strictly 3-Local.

4gram

The number in the `4gram' field indicates the smallest sample size a 4-gram learner needed in order to converge to the attested pattern. If the entry is 0, this means that no sample size will allow the learner to converge; the learner has failed. If the entry is greater than 0, then the pattern is Strictly 4-Local.

prec

The number in the `prec' field indicates the smallest sample size a precedence learner (Heinz 2007) needed in order to converge to the attested pattern. If the entry is greater than 0, then this pattern belongs to the class of Precedence languages.

pr2g

If the number in the `pr2g' field is greater than 0, then the language obtained through the intersection of the language obtained with the bigram learner and the language obtained with the precedence learner is the target language.

pr3g

If the number in the `pr3g' field is greater than 0, then the language obtained through the intersection of the language obtained with the trigram learner and the language obtained with the precedence learner is the target language.

pr4g

If the number in the `pr4g' field is greater than 0, then the language obtained through the intersection of the language obtained with the 4-gram learner and the language obtained with the precedence learner is the target language.

Since the precedence learner returned languages which were strict supersets of the languages returned by the n-gram learners, the prNg fields track the n-gram fields exactly.