Phonological feature-based multilingual lexical description refers to the lexical description framework that I use in my sample lexical fragments to test the different architectures that have been proposed for multilingual inheritance-based lexical representation. A full description of the lexical description framework can be found in Tiberius and Evans (2000).
The framework covers morphological and phonological aspects of word formation Using a highly modular default-inheritance based approach, it supports the description of morphological and phonological lexical generalisations in a uniform representation system making no sharp distinction between morphology and phonology. The lexicon is organised into distinct self-contained modules corresponding to levels of lexical description (lexemes, syllable sequences, syllables, and phonemes). Each module makes extensive use of lexical rules to represent higher level relationships between word forms. The lexical description framework is implemented in DATR, an inheritance-based formalism developed by Evans and Gazdar (1996)
An illustration of the framework can be found here. This lexical fragment describes a small set of nouns (all terms for body parts) in Dutch, English, Danish, and Icelandic.
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