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  <Title>Stochastic phonological grammars and acceptability</Title>
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2 Grammar and Parsing
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    <Paragraph position="0"> For the present paper, we consider a grammar of English words which is extremely simple but which still offers enough complexity to cover a large fraction Of the English vocabulary and to raise serious issues for a stochastic implementation. We consider all monosyllables and disyllables'in Mitton (1992). Since these may differ in the stress of each syllable, this yields the following CF rules for expanding the word node W into strong and weak syllables Ss and Sw:  such as &amp;quot;Rangoon&amp;quot;) The disyllabic words in the dictionary also include quite a few compounds, which behave phonotactically:like two monosyllabic words. In order to provide for such cases, the actual root node in the system is U (&amp;quot;utterance&amp;quot;), supporting expansions:</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Syllables have internal structure which is important for their phonotactics. According to classical treatments, such as Fudge (1969), each syllable has an onset and a rhyme, yielding the following rule schema:</Paragraph>
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