Phonological Naturalness and Phonotactic Learning
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Phonological naturalness and phonotactic learning
We investigate whether the patterns of phonotactic well-formedness internalized by language learners are direct reflections of the phonological patterns they encounter, or reflect in addition principles of phonological naturalness. As a research tool we employ the phonotactic learning system of Hayes and Wilson (2008), which carries out an unbiased search of the lexicon for valid phonotactic ge...
متن کاملLexicon against Naturalness: Unnatural Gradient Phonotactic Restrictions and Their Origins∗
This paper presents two cases of lexically gradient phonotactic restrictions that operate against what would be phonetically natural: Tarma Quechua and Berawan. The paper shows that the unnatural trends in the lexicon are statistically significant, phonetically real, and show clear signs of productivity, with evidence from loanword phonology and from morphophonological alternations. Based on th...
متن کاملWord learning, phonological short-term memory, phonotactic probability and long-term memory: towards an integrated framework.
Word learning is studied in a multitude of ways, and it is often not clear what the relationship is between different phenomena. In this article, we begin by outlining a very simple functional framework that despite its simplicity can serve as a useful organizing scheme for thinking about various types of studies of word learning. We then review a number of themes that in recent years have emer...
متن کاملWord learning by children with phonological delays: differentiating effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density.
UNLABELLED This study examined the ability of 20 preschool children with functional phonological delays and 34 age- and vocabulary-matched typical children to learn words differing in phonotactic probability (i.e., the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence) and neighborhood density (i.e., the number of words that differ from a target by one phoneme). Children were exposed to nonwords pai...
متن کاملOn learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar
We report six experiments on learnability of four non-adjacent phonotactic constraints which differ in their attested frequency and phonetic conditioning factors; liquid harmony, liquid disharmony, backness harmony, and backness disharmony. Our results suggest that such phonotactic constraints can be implicitly learned from brief experience and that learnability of a phonological grammar may be...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Linguistic Inquiry
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0024-3892,1530-9150
DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00119