The Library
Morphological convergence as on-line lexical analogy
Tools
Rácz, Péter, Beckner, Clay, Hay, Jennifer and Pierrehumbert, Janet (2020) Morphological convergence as on-line lexical analogy. Language, 96 (4). pp. 735-770. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0247 ISSN 1535-0665.
|
PDF
WRAP-Morphological-convergence-lexical-analogy-Beckner-2020.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (1578Kb) | Preview |
|
PDF
WRAP-Morphological-convergence-lexical-analogy-Beckner-2020.pdf - Accepted Version Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (497Kb) |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0247
Abstract
The English past-tense contains pockets of variation, where regular and irregular forms compete (e.g. learned/learnt, or weaved/wove). Individuals vary considerably in the degree to which they prefer irregular forms. This paper examines the degree to which individuals may converge on their regularization patterns and preferences. We report on a novel experimental methodology, using a cooperative game involving nonce verbs. Analysis of participants' post-game responses indicates that their behavior has shifted in response to an automated co-player's preferences, on two dimensions. First, players regularize more after playing with peers with high regularization rates, and less after playing with peers with low regularization rates. Second, players' overall pattern of regularization is also affected by the particular distribution of (ir)regular forms produced by the peer.
We model the effects of the exposure on participants' morphological preferences, using both a rule-based model and an instance-based analogical model (Albright & Hayes, 2003; Nosofsky, 1988). Both models contribute separately and significantlyto explaining participants' pre-exposure regularization processes. However, only the instance-based model captures the shift in preferences that arises after exposure to the peer. We argue that the results suggest an account of morphological convergence in which new word forms are stored in memory, and online generalizations are formed over these instances.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
|||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Language | |||||||||
Publisher: | Linguistic Society of America | |||||||||
ISSN: | 1535-0665 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 15 December 2020 | |||||||||
Dates: |
|
|||||||||
Volume: | 96 | |||||||||
Number: | 4 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 735-770 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/lan.0.0247 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 May 2020 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 December 2021 | |||||||||
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
|||||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year