| ROA: | 269 |
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| Title: | Temporally organized lexical representations as phonological units |
| Authors: | Stefan Frisch |
| Comment: | Paper presented at the 5th conference on Laboratory Phonology. 18 pages. Uses SIL Doulos IPA font |
| Length: | 18 |
| Abstract: | Temporally organized lexical representations as phonological units Stephan Frisch This paper has two distinct, but related goals. The first goal is to demonstrate that lexical processing does influence linguistic competence, by showing that the beginning-to-end temporal order in which the segments in a word are processed is a functional influence on the phonology. More generally, I claim that cognitive factors influence phonology, and may be the source of language particular constraints or universal linguistic tendencies. In general, cognitive influences should not be ignored or factored out of linguistic theories, rather they should be recognized as sources of explanation for linguistic patterns. The second goal is to investigate a model of gradient constraint combination in the phonotactics of the verbal roots of Arabic, based on the stochastic constraint model (Frisch, Broe, & Pierrehumbert, ROA#223). This model contrasts with constraint combination in Optimality Theory, which is mediated by the strict dominance heirarchy. The gradient model I use considers the cumulative effects of multiple constraint violations on the distribution of verbal roots in the Arabic lexicon. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |