Abstract | ||
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The present study explores learning phonological alternations that contain exceptions. Participants were exposed to a back/round vowel harmony pattern in which a regular suffix obeyed a vowel harmony rule, varying between /e/ and /o/ depending on the back/round phonetic features of the stem, and a non-alternating suffix that was always /o/ regardless of the features of the stem vowel. Participants in Experiment 1 learned the behavior of both suffixes, but correct performance for the non-alternating suffix was higher when the suffix happened to be in harmony with the stem. Participants in Experiment 2 were exposed to the non-alternating affix in harmonic contexts only, and continued to show a bias towards harmony. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2 with minimal training on disharmonic cases of the non-alternating morpheme. However, participants were less likely to learn the alternating affix without exposure to morphological stem, stem + suffix alternations in Experiment 4, suggesting a bias towards morphophonological alternations in learning vowel harmony patterns. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1177/0023830920978679 | LANGUAGE AND SPEECH |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Artificial language learning, vowel harmony, learning biases, exceptions | Suffix,Psychology,Vowel harmony,Cognitive psychology,Vowel,Ambiguity,Harmony (color),Alternation (linguistics) | Conference |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
64 | 4 | 0023-8309 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 2 |
Authors | ||
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Sara Finley | 1 | 8 | 4.42 |