Conspiracy and sabotage in the acquisition of phonology: dense data undermine existing theories, provide scaffolding for a new one  

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Menn, Lise ; Schmidt, Ellen ; Nicholas, Brent

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 31 no. 2-3 (2009), page 285-304.
Topik: Child phonology; Rule conspiracy; Template; Attractor; Acquisition model; Exemplar-based model
Fulltext: vol. 31 issue 2-3 March - May, 2009. p. 285-304.pdf (726.68KB)

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Since the before publication of The Sound Pattern of English [Chomsky, N., Halle, M., 1968. The Sound Pattern of English. Harper & Row, New York], phonological theory has been struggling with finding ways to express both the surface and the deep phonological generalizations that are inherent in language structure. In the 1970’s, Kisseberth and Kenstowicz, recognizing that rules often ‘‘conspired” to maintain phonotactic constraints, pointed out the descriptive value of representing both rules and constraints explicitly, at the cost of redundancy in the formalism. However, phonological theory has continued to choose to make either rules or constraints easy to apprehend, at the cost of obscuring the other. This paper presents a major extension of the exemplar-based approach of radical templatic theory [Vihman, M.M., Croft, W., 2007. Phonological development: toward a ‘radical’ templatic phonology. Linguistics 45, 683–725] and new data from early phonological acquisition, and supports the psycholinguistic appropriateness of frequency-sensitive representations. In order to account insightfully for the striking regularities as well as the irreducible irregularities of early phonology, our Linked Attractor model maintains both underlying and output representations for each lexical entry, and additionally posits both input-to-output rules and feedback (output-to-input) rules to account for patterns of fossilization and developmental progress. Our long-term goal is to make the Linked Attractor model explicit enough for statistical modeling and testing, and to offer it to phonological theory as the basis for a psycholinguistically viable model for adult phonology as well.

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