A computational approach to morphonotactics: evidence from German  

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Calderone, Basilio ; Celata, Chiara ; Korecky-Kroll, Katharina ; Dressler, Wolfgang U.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 46 no. Part A (2014), page 59-70.
Topik: Phonotactics; Morphonotactics; Computational modeling; Neural networks German
Fulltext: 46-Part-A_Calderone.pdf (1.2MB)

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According to the Strong Morphonotactic Hypothesis (SMH), speakers use morphonotactic consonant clusters as morphological boundary signals. Morphonotactic clusters are thereby assigned a morphological function in processing, which is assumed to facilitate processing and acquisition of complex consonantal structures. The aim of this paper is that of testing the SMH from a computational point of view, making use of a corpus-based model of neural network activation (PHACTS) trained on a German corpus. We evaluate whether PHACTS produces different representations for homophonous phonological sequences that either contain or do not contain a morphological boundary. The study provides a psycholinguistically plausible simulation of how the cognitive representation of (mor)phonotactic clusters emerges from corpus information about the phonotactics of a given language.

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