| Title: | Speakers apply morphological dependencies in the inflection of novel forms : lecture at the University of Connecticut, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Ling Lunch, 18. 4. 2023 |
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| Authors: | ID Tabachnick, Guy (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://linguistics.uconn.edu/events/lunch/
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 3.14 - Invited Lecture at Foreign University |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | Theories of morphology must account for lexicalized variation: lexical items that differ unpredictably in their inflection must be memorized individually and differ in their stored representation. When tested on such cases, adult speakers usually follow the “law of frequency matching” (Hayes et al. 2009), extending gradient phonological patterns from the lexicon. In this talk, I present results from two wug tests showing that Hungarian and Czech speakers likewise extend gradient morphological patterns from the lexicon: that is, they productively imply correlations between inflected forms of the same word. I handle lexicalized variation using diacritic features marking lexical entries and propose that Hungarian and Czech speakers have learned a gradient cooccurrence relation between diacritic features, extending the sublexicon model of Gouskova et al. (2015). This approach also allows for a flexible analysis of traditional inflection classes (in languages like Russian) as emergent clusters of frequently cooccurring features. |
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| Keywords: | morphology, psycholinguistics, inflection classes, nonce word study, frequency matching, morphological dependencies, Hungarian, Czech |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-8922  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 187695875 |
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| UDC: | 81 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:VXSDRO20 |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 05.03.2024 |
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| Views: | 1325 |
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