Allomorphic responses in Serbian pseudo-nouns as a result of analogical learning

Allomorphy is a phenomenon that occurs in many languages. Several psycholinguistic studies have shown that allomorphy, if present, co-determines cognitive processing. In the present paper we discussed allomorphic variations of Serbian instrumental singular form of pseudo-nouns as emerging from analogical learning. We compared the predictions derived from memory-based language processing models with results from previous experimental study with adult Serbian native speakers. Results confirmed that production of suffix allomorphs in Serbian instrumental singular masculine nouns could be accounted for by memory-based learning, and simple analogical inferences. The present findings are in line with a growing body of research showing that memory-based learning models make relevant predictions about the cognitive processes involved in various linguistic phenomena.