Grammars Leak: Modeling How Phonotactic Generalizations Interact within the Grammar

Autor/in	Martin, Andrew
Titel	Grammars Leak: Modeling How Phonotactic Generalizations Interact within the Grammar
Quelle	In: Language, 87 (2011) 4, S.751-770 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0097-8507
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Navajo; Morphemes; Language Research; Probability; English; Phonology; Suprasegmentals; Morphology (Languages); Generalization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Morphem; Sprachforschung; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; English language; Englisch; Fonologie; Morphology; Morphologie
Abstract	I present evidence from Navajo and English that weaker, gradient versions of morpheme-internal phonotactic constraints, such as the ban on geminate consonants in English, hold even across prosodic word boundaries. I argue that these lexical biases are the result of a MAXIMUM ENTROPY phonotactic learning algorithm that maximizes the probability of the learning data, but that also contains a smoothing term that penalizes complex grammars. When this learner attempts to construct a grammar in which some constraints are blind to morphological structure, it underpredicts the frequency of compounds that violate a morpheme-internal phonotactic. I further show how, over time, this learning bias could plausibly lead to the lexical biases seen in Navajo and English. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10