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Word-specific phonetics
- Laboratory Phonology 7. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
, 2002
"... A long-standing forte of the Laboratory Phonology series has been work on phonetic implementation of phonological representations. Numerous studies in this series have elucidated the patterns of variation in the realization of phonological categories in different segmental and prosodic contexts, and ..."
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A long-standing forte of the Laboratory Phonology series has been work on phonetic implementation of phonological representations. Numerous studies in this series have elucidated the patterns of variation in the realization of phonological categories in different segmental and prosodic contexts, and such studies now provide one of the main lines of evidence about the cognitive representation
From usage to grammar: the mind’s response to repetition.
- Language,
, 2006
"... Abstract A usage-based view takes grammar to be the cognitive organization of one's experience with language. Aspects of that experience, for instance, the frequency of use of certain constructions or particular instances of constructions, have an impact on representation that are evidenced in ..."
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Abstract A usage-based view takes grammar to be the cognitive organization of one's experience with language. Aspects of that experience, for instance, the frequency of use of certain constructions or particular instances of constructions, have an impact on representation that are evidenced in speaker knowledge of conventionalized phrases, and in language variation and change. It is shown that particular instances of construction can acquire their own pragmatic, semantic and phonological characteristics. In addition, it is argued that high frequency instances of constructions undergo grammaticization processes (which produce further change), function as the central members of categories formed by constructions and retain their old forms longer under the pressure of newer formations. An exemplar model that accommodates both phonological and semantic representation is elaborated to describe the data considered.
Phonetic diversity, statistical learning, and acquisition of phonology
- Language and Speech
, 2003
"... Infants show evidence of phonetic categorization and of perceptual parsing of the speech stream before they learn to speak, before they have large vocabularies, and possibly before they even understand that words are referential. Some parts of the speech processing system are initiated early. Howeve ..."
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Infants show evidence of phonetic categorization and of perceptual parsing of the speech stream before they learn to speak, before they have large vocabularies, and possibly before they even understand that words are referential. Some parts of the speech processing system are initiated early. However, the system takes a long time
Probabilistic Modeling in Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Comprehension and Production
- PROBABILISTIC LINGUISTICS
, 2003
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The emergence of words: Attentional learning in form and meaning
- Cognitive Science
, 2005
"... Children improve at word learning during the 2nd year of life—sometimes dramatically. This fact has suggested a change in mechanism, from associative learning to a more referential form of learning. This article presents an associative exemplar-based model that accounts for the improvement without a ..."
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Children improve at word learning during the 2nd year of life—sometimes dramatically. This fact has suggested a change in mechanism, from associative learning to a more referential form of learning. This article presents an associative exemplar-based model that accounts for the improvement without a change in mechanism. It provides a unified account of children’s growing abilities to (a) learn a new word given only 1 or a few training trials (“fast mapping”); (b) acquire words that differ only slightly in phonological form; (c) generalize word meanings preferentially along particular dimensions, such as object shape (the “shape bias”); and (d) learn 2nd labels for already-named objects, despite a persisting resistance to doing so (“mutual exclusivity”). The model explains these improvements in terms of in-creased attention to relevant aspects of form and meaning, which reduces memory interference. The in-teraction of associations and reference in word learning is discussed.
Exemplar-Based Syntax: How to get productivity from examples
- The Linguistic Review
, 2006
"... Exemplar-based models of language propose that human language production and understanding operate with a store of concrete linguistic experiences rather than with abstract linguistic rules. While exemplarbased models are well acknowledged in areas like phonology and morphology, common wisdom has it ..."
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Exemplar-based models of language propose that human language production and understanding operate with a store of concrete linguistic experiences rather than with abstract linguistic rules. While exemplarbased models are well acknowledged in areas like phonology and morphology, common wisdom has it that they are intrinsically flawed for syntax where infinite generative capacity is needed. This paper shows that this common wisdom is wrong. It starts out by reviewing an exemplar-based syntactic model, known as Data-Oriented Parsing, or DOP, which operates on a corpus of phrase-structure trees. While this model is productive, it is inadequate from the point of grammatical productivity. We therefore extend it to the more sophisticated linguistic representations proposed by Lexical-Functional Grammar theory, resulting in the model known as LFG-DOP, which does allow for meta-linguistic judgments of acceptability. We show how DOP deals with first language acquisition, suggesting a unified model for language learning and language use, and go into a number of syntactic phenomena that can be explained by DOP but that challenge rulebased models. We argue that if there is anything innate in language cognition it is not Universal Grammar but “Universal Representation”. 1.
Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
- Journal of Phonetics
, 2006
"... Brynmor Thomas and Alice Murphy for their help with data collection and analysis, and to Christian Langstrof and Margaret Maclagan for providing comments on an earlier draft. This paper has also greatly benefited from the comments of Stefanie Jannedy, and three anonymous reviewers. Support ..."
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Brynmor Thomas and Alice Murphy for their help with data collection and analysis, and to Christian Langstrof and Margaret Maclagan for providing comments on an earlier draft. This paper has also greatly benefited from the comments of Stefanie Jannedy, and three anonymous reviewers. Support
Against formal phonology
- Language
, 2005
"... Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in phonological theory. Discreteness at the phonetic level guarantees the discreteness of all other levels of language. But d ..."
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Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in phonological theory. Discreteness at the phonetic level guarantees the discreteness of all other levels of language. But decades of phonetics research demonstrate that there exists no universal inventory of phonetic objects. We discuss three kinds of evidence: first, phonologies differ incommensurably. Second, some phonetic characteristics of languages depend on intrinsically temporal patterns, and, third, some linguistic sound categories within a language are different from each other despite a high degree of overlap that precludes distinctness. Linguistics has mistakenly presumed that speech can always be spelled with letter-like tokens. A variety of implications of these conclusions for research in phonology are discussed.* The generative paradigm of language description (Chomsky 1964, 1965, Chomsky & Halle 1968) has dominated linguistic thinking in the United States for many years. Its specific claims about the phonetic basis of linguistic analysis still provide the cornerstone of most linguistic research. Many criticisms have been raised against the phonetic claims of the Sound pattern of English (Chomsky & Halle 1968), some from early on
Stochastic phonology
, 2001
"... In classic generative phonology, linguistic competence in the area of sound structure is modeled by a phonological grammar. The theory takes a grammatical form because it posits an inventory of categories ..."
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In classic generative phonology, linguistic competence in the area of sound structure is modeled by a phonological grammar. The theory takes a grammatical form because it posits an inventory of categories
