Gradient Exceptionality in Maximum Entropy Grammar with Lexically Specific Constraints

The number of exceptions to a phonological generalization appears to gradiently affect its productivity. Generalizations with relatively few exceptions are relatively productive, as measured in tendencies to regularization, as well as in nonce word productions and other psycholinguistic tasks. Gradi...

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Autores principales:	Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016
Materias:	exceptions variation computational phonology Maximum Entropy Grammar indexed constraints Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:574cc5847bd44ae0be3ea4dd4c98b52f2021-11-27T10:46:51ZGradient Exceptionality in Maximum Entropy Grammar with Lexically Specific Constraints10.5565/rev/catjl.1831695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/574cc5847bd44ae0be3ea4dd4c98b52f2016-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/183https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719The number of exceptions to a phonological generalization appears to gradiently affect its productivity. Generalizations with relatively few exceptions are relatively productive, as measured in tendencies to regularization, as well as in nonce word productions and other psycholinguistic tasks. Gradient productivity has been previously modeled with probabilistic grammars, including Maximum Entropy Grammar, but they often fail to capture the fixed pronunciations of the existing words in a language, as opposed to nonce words. Lexically specific constraints allow existing words to be produced faithfully, while permitting variation in novel words that are not subject to those constraints. When each word has its own lexically specific version of a constraint, an inverse correlation between the number of exceptions and the degree of productivity is straightforwardly predicted.Claire Moore-CantwellJoe PaterUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleexceptionsvariationcomputational phonologyMaximum Entropy Grammarindexed constraintsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 15 (2016)
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description	The number of exceptions to a phonological generalization appears to gradiently affect its productivity. Generalizations with relatively few exceptions are relatively productive, as measured in tendencies to regularization, as well as in nonce word productions and other psycholinguistic tasks. Gradient productivity has been previously modeled with probabilistic grammars, including Maximum Entropy Grammar, but they often fail to capture the fixed pronunciations of the existing words in a language, as opposed to nonce words. Lexically specific constraints allow existing words to be produced faithfully, while permitting variation in novel words that are not subject to those constraints. When each word has its own lexically specific version of a constraint, an inverse correlation between the number of exceptions and the degree of productivity is straightforwardly predicted.
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Gradient Exceptionality in Maximum Entropy Grammar with Lexically Specific Constraints

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