On learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar

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  • Hahn Koo Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Author
  • Jennifer Cole Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Author

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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2006/01/0035/000035

Abstract

We report six experiments on learnability of four non-adjacent phonotactic constraints which differ in their attested frequency and phonetic conditioning factors; liquid harmony, liquid disharmony, backness harmony, and backness disharmony. Our results suggest that such phonotactic constraints can be implicitly learned from brief experience and that learnability of a phonological grammar may be independent of its attested frequency and phonetic basis.

 

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01-01-2006

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Vol. 1 (2006): Proceedings of the 1st Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics

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Proceedings Papers

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On learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar. (2006). Linguistic Proceedings Series, 1(1), 165-168. https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2006/01/0035/000035

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