Predicting the Unpredictable: Interpreting Neutralized Segments in Dutch  

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Ernestus, Mirjam ; Baayen, R. Harald

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 79 no. 1 (2003), page 5-38.
Fulltext: Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 5-38.pdf (3.9MB)

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Among the most fascinating data for phonology are those showing how speakers incorporate new words and foreign words into their language system, since these data provide cues to the actual principles underlying language. In this article, we address how speakers deal with neutral- ized obstruents in new words. We formulate four hypotheses and test them on the basis of Dutch word-final obstruents, which are neutral for [voice]. Our experiments show that speakers predict the characteristics of neutralized segments on the basis of phonologically similar morphemes stored in the mental lexicon. This effect of the similar morphemes can be modeled in several ways. We compare five models, among them STOCHASTIC OPTIMALITY THEORY and ANALOGICAL MODELING OF LANGUAGE; all perform approximately equally well, but they differ in their complex- ity, with analogical modeling of language providing the most economical explanation.*

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