Phonotactics as phonology: knowledge of a complex restriction in Dutch  

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Kager, Rene ; Pater, Joe

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 01 (May 2012), page 81-111.
Fulltext: Kager_Ren, (May 2012), p. 81-111.pdf (477.44KB)

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The Dutch lexicon contains very few sequences of a long vowel followed by a consonant cluster whose second member is a non-coronal. We provide experimental evidence that Dutch speakers have implicit knowledge of this gap, which cannot be reduced to the probability of segmental sequences or to wordlikeness as measured by neighbourhood density. The experiment also suggests that the ill-formedness of this sequence is mediated by syllable structure: it has a weaker effect on speakers’ judgements when the last consonant begins a new syllable. We provide an account in terms of Hayes & Wilson’s (2008) maximum entropy model of phonotactics, using constraints that go beyond the complexity permitted by their model of constraint induction.

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