Blocking as a Function of the Nature of Linguistic Representations: Where Psycholinguistics and Morphology Meet
| Autor: | Versloot, A.P., Hoekstra, E., Rainer, F., Gardani, F., Dressler, W.U., Luschützky, H.C. |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Fryske Akademy (FA), ACLC (FGw) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation ISBN: 9783030025496 Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation, 145-166 STARTPAGE=145;ENDPAGE=166;TITLE=Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-02550-2_6 |
| Popis: | This paper addresses the question to what extent morphological blocking in language is a rule-based phenomenon. We argue that language users do not operate with a blocking rule, but that a form preference emerges as a result of cognitive selection mechanisms in a neural network of linguistic information. The actual target form develops its own token frequency in a probabilistic process, known as Preferential Attachment. After some time and some generations, one form will develop a nearly absolute dominance with its own local token frequency. This model implies that there is no blocking as an active negative action, but only a local lemma specific frequency, built up by a stochastic Preferential Attachment process, which favours one of the theoretically possible forms and, as a consequence, ‘suppresses’ the other options. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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