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ROA 1046-0809

Modelling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across the mental lexicon

Silke Hamann <hamann at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Diana Apoussidou <d.apoussidou at uva.nl>
Paul Boersma <paul.boersma at uva.nl>

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Abstract:
The goal of this paper is to model the experimental data
found by Hamann & Ernestus who showed that adults learnt
a phonotactic restriction better when presented with many
word types than when presented with a smaller set of word
types that were repeated. The combined result of virtually
learning the connections between four levels of representation
(meaning, underlying form, surface form and auditory form)
with a single learning algorithm is a sensitivity to type
frequency: virtual learners trained on 20 word types (presented
once) ended up with stronger phonotactic constraints than
those trained on 10 word types (presented twice), predicting
that the former group is better at generalizing the learned
phonotactic restrictions.

Comments: CLS 45
Keywords: bidirectionality, phonotactics, multi-level parallelism
Areas: Phonology,Computation,Learnability,Language Acquisition
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

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