On-Line Papers

Bibliography

Squibs, handouts, books by others

• This is my diploma thesis, completed in the summer of 1992 for a Computer Science degree at Stuttgart University. It's called Deklarative Silbifizierung in einem constraintbasierten Grammatikformalismus
• This is a 25-page English summary of the diploma thesis, appearing 1993 in Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, called Declarative Syllabification With Applications to German. (The original Edinburgh copy is here).
• This paper appeared in the KONVENS'94 Vienna Conference proceedings and constitutes an initial attempt at a declarative integration of phonology and phonetics, based on joint work with Bernd Kroeger. While the original has the title Phonologie-Phonetik-Kopplung in einem constraintbasierten gesturalen Modell, an English translation by the first author appears as Coupling Phonology and Phonetics in a Constraint-Based Gestural Model
• This 1995 paper, published in Linguistische Berichte 157 and based on joint work with Richard Wiese, explores a case of three interacting consonantal alternations in Northern High German, showing that it is possible to reexpress a rule-based account in declarative fashion with hard constraints. Deklarative versus prozedurale Modellierung von Konsonantenalternationen im Deutschen is, unfortunately, currently not available in electronic form.
• This is a large report on implementing and testing a specific proposal for inflectional morphology (Wunderlich/Fabri 1993), appearing in the report series of the Sonderforschungsbereich 282 as Fabri/Rumpf/Walther/Urbas (1995): A Computational Model of Minimalist Morphology (74 pp., 264 KB).
• A Strictly Lexicalized Approach to Phonology (1995) is a dense 6 pp. paper exploring how to fully lexicalize declarative phonology in a typed feature logic without employing recursive relational extensions. Topics include self-syllabifiying segments, a tricky case of morphophonological interaction in German and general ways of expressing non-local autosegmental notions. In the Proceedings of DGfS/CL'95, October 4-6, University of Duesseldorf.

@MastersThesis{walther:92,
  author = 	 "Markus Walther",
  title = 	 "{D}eklarative {S}ilbifizierung in einem 
		  constraintbasierten {G}rammatikformalismus",
  school = 	 {Institut f\"ur Informatik/Institut f\"ur
		  maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung},
  year = 	 1992,
  address =	 "University of Stuttgart",
  note =	 "Diplomarbeit Nr. 862"
}

@InCollection{walther:93,
  author = 	 "Markus Walther",
  title = 	 "Declarative {S}yllabification with {A}pplications to {G}erman",
  booktitle =	 "Computational Phonology",
  year =	 1993,
  editor =	 "T. Mark Ellison and James M. Scobbie",
  volume =	 8,
  series =	 "Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science",
  pages =	 "55--79",
  address =	 "Centre for Cognitive Science Edinburgh, University
		  of Edinburgh"
}

@InProceedings{walther.kroeger:94a,
  author = 	 {Markus Walther and Bernd J. Kr\"oger},
  title = 	 "{P}honologie-{P}honetik-{K}opplung in
		  einem constraintbasierten gesturalen {M}odell",
  editor =	 "Harald Trost",
  number =	 6,
  series =	 "Informatik Xpress",
  booktitle =	 "Tagungsband der KONVENS'94",
  year =	 1994,
  pages =        "387--396"
  organization = {\"Osterreichische Gesellschaft f\"ur
		 Artificial Intelligence},
  address =	 "Wien"
}

@Unpublished{walther.kroeger:94b,
  author = 	 {Markus Walther and Bernd J. Kr\"oger},
  title = 	 "Coupling Phonology and Phonetics in a 
		  Constraint-Based Gestural Model",
  note = 	 "English translation of Walther and Kroeger(1994a), 
		  http://xxx.lanl.gov/{ps,abs}/cmp-lg/9412007",
  year =	 1994
}

@Article{walther.wiese:95,
  author = 	 "Markus Walther and Richard Wiese",
  title = 	 "{D}eklarative versus prozedurale {M}odellierung von 
		  {K}onsonantenalternationen im {D}eutschen",
  journal =	 "Linguistische Berichte",
  year =	 1995,
  number =	 157,
  pages =	 "175-185",
}

@TechReport{fabri.rumpf.walther.urbas:95,
  author = 	 "Ray Fabri and Christof Rumpf and Martina Urbas and
		  Markus Walther",
  title = 	 "A Computational Model of Minimalist Morphology",
  institution =  {Seminar f\"ur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft},
  year = 	 1995,
  type =	 "Arbeiten des Sonderforschungsbereichs 282 `Theorie
		  des Lexikons'",
  number =	 62,
  address =	 {University of D\"usseldorf}
}



@InProceedings{walther:95,
  author = 	 "Markus Walther",
  title = 	 "A Strictly Lexicalized Approach to Phonology",
  editor =	 "James Kilbury and Richard Wiese",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of DGfS/CL'95",
  year =	 1995,
  pages =	 "108--113",
  organization = {Deutsche Gesellschaft f\"ur Sprachwissenschaft,
		  Sektion Computerlinguistik}
}

@TechReport{walther:96,
  author = 	 "Markus Walther",
  title = 	 "{OT SIMPLE} -- {A} construction-kit approach to
		  {O}ptimality {T}heory implementation", 
  institution =  {Seminar f. Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, University
		  of D\"usseldorf, Germany},
  year = 	 1996,
  type =	 "Arbeiten des Sonderforschungsbereichs 282 `Theorie
		  des Lexikons'",
  number =	 "Nr. 88",
  month =	 "October",
  note =	 "(ROA-152)"
}


@PhdThesis{walther:97,
  author = 	 "Markus Walther",
  title = 	 "Deklarative prosodische Morphologie --
		  constraintbasierte Analysen und Computermodelle zum
		  Finnischen und Tigrinya",
  school = 	 "Philosophische Fakult{\"a}t der
		  Heinrich-Heine-Universit{\"at} D{\"u}sseldorf",
  year = 	 1997
}

Remarks on Morphemes as Constraints in Optimality Theory (OT). In German.

Remarks on Underlying Representations as Memorized Violation Patterns within an OT framework

Is Optimal = Incremental in OT? Lessons from a Computational Fragment of Tonkawa Prosodic Morphology. Handout (10pp., 23KB) in German of talk given at DGfS summer school 1995, University of Saarbrücken

Vowel Coalescence in Tigrinya. Handout (5pp., 114 KB) of talk held at Spring Phonology Workshop, June 14, 1996, at the University of Düsseldorf. (References and xeroxed data sheet missing, to be revised/added later)

G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy. My HTMLized version of the Project Gutenberg EText.