TY - JOUR
T1 - Input Optimisation
T2 - Phonology and morphology
AU - Hammond, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - In this paper, I provide a unified account of three frequency effects in phonology. First, typologically marked elements are underrepresented. Second, phonological changes are underrepresented. Third, morphologically conditioned phonological changes are overrepresented. These effects are demonstrated with corpus data from English and Welsh. I show how all three effects follow from a simple conception of phonological complexity. Further, I demonstrate how this notion of complexity makes predictions about other phenomena in these languages, and that these predictions are borne out. I model this with traditional Optimality Theory, but the proposal is consistent with any constraint-based formalism that weights constraints in some way.
AB - In this paper, I provide a unified account of three frequency effects in phonology. First, typologically marked elements are underrepresented. Second, phonological changes are underrepresented. Third, morphologically conditioned phonological changes are overrepresented. These effects are demonstrated with corpus data from English and Welsh. I show how all three effects follow from a simple conception of phonological complexity. Further, I demonstrate how this notion of complexity makes predictions about other phenomena in these languages, and that these predictions are borne out. I model this with traditional Optimality Theory, but the proposal is consistent with any constraint-based formalism that weights constraints in some way.
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U2 - 10.1017/S095267571600021X
DO - 10.1017/S095267571600021X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010082098
SN - 0952-6757
VL - 33
SP - 459
EP - 491
JO - Phonology
JF - Phonology
IS - 3
ER -