The surfeit of the stimulus: Analytic biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish laryngeal alternations

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dc.contributor.authorKetrez, F. Nihan
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T06:38:37Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T06:38:37Z
dc.date.issued2011-03
dc.description.abstractIn an experimental task with novel words, we find that some lexical statistical regularities of Turkish phonotactics are productively extended in nonce words, while others are not. In particular, while laryngeal alternation rates in the lexicon can be predicted by the place of articulation of the stem-final stop, by word-length, and by the preceding vowel quality, this laryngeal alternation is only productively conditioned by place of articulation and word-length. Speakers' responses in a novel word task demonstrate that although they are attuned to the place of articulation and size effects, they ignore preceding vowels, even though the lexicon contains this information in abundance. We interpret this finding as evidence that speakers distinguish between phonologically motivated generalizations and accidental generalizations. We propose that universal grammar (UG), a set of analytic biases, acts as a filter on the generalizations that humans can make: UG contains information about possible and impossible interactions between phonological elements. Omnivorous statistical models that do not have information about possible interactions incorrectly reproduce accidental generalizations, thus failing to model speakers' behavior.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/lan.2011.0016en_US
dc.identifier.issn1535-0665
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-80051657245en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/3807
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2011.0016
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000300593400004en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.issue1en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors3en_US
dc.pages84 - 125en_US
dc.relation.ispartofLanguageen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectLaryngeal alternationsen_US
dc.subjectNaturalnessen_US
dc.subjectSurfeit of the stimulusen_US
dc.subjectTurkishen_US
dc.subjectVowel-consonant interactionen_US
dc.subjectWug testen_US
dc.titleThe surfeit of the stimulus: Analytic biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish laryngeal alternationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume87en_US

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