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Lexical Conservatism in phonology: theory, experiments, and computational modeling
Breiss, Canaan M. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2021
Abstract: In my dissertation I examined the interaction of the phonological grammar and lexicon through the lens of Lexical Conservatism (Steriade, 1997). Lexical Conservatism is a theory about what kinds of lexical and phonological factors influence speakers’ decision about how to pronounce a novel word. The hypothesis of Lexical Conservatism states that speakers avoid creating novel allomorphs, and instead preferentially recruit other stem allomorphs from elsewhere in a morphosyntactic paradigm to resolve marked structures created by affixation. I probed these questions using three experiments on English stress placement (chapter 2), and two experiments on Spanish mid-vowel diphthongization (chapter 3). I found that English words which have phonologically advantageous Remote Bases are produced on a free-response task with right-shifted stress more often than nouns which do not. This effect only holds for individual participants who know both the Local and Remote Bases. The lexical qualities of the Remote Base such as semantic similarity and frequency, as well as classical phonological factors such as the Stress-to-Weight Principle and the avoidance of long lapses, also impact the stress placement in the novel form. I also find that the role of the Remote Base can be influenced on the level of the individual trial by priming, indicating that the Remote Base is actively recruited from the lexicon by the phonology, implying a rich and dynamic interaction unfolding over time and across grammatical domains. I modeled this grammar-lexicon interaction in a Maximum Entropy Harmonic Grammar framework, proposing a new theory where each Base in the lexicon gets to exert a pull on the novel derivative, which is cross-cut by markedness considerations (chapter 4). This model incorporates information about the lexical status of the Remote Base into a contemporary constraint-based phonological framework by treating the lexicon as prior on the accessibility of different words to the grammar (chapter 5).
Keyword: experiments; lexical conservatism; Linguistics; maxent modelling; phonology; priming; processing
URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9dd0r1jt
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Adoption versus Replacement: “Obamacare” at Crossroads
In: ALTRALANG Journal; Vol 3 No 03 (2021): ALTRALANG Journal Volume: 03 Issue: 03 / December 2021; 83-106 ; 2710-8619 ; 2710-7922 (2021)
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La utopía clásico-hinduista, clave del primer conservadurismo religioso ; The Classical-Indianist Utopia: A Key to Early Religious Conservatism
Armenteros, Carolina. - : Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Humanidades Contemporáneas, 2021
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In search of traces of lexical conservatism ; Inglês ; Em busca de traços de conservadorismos lexicais
In: Revista GTLex; v. 6 n. 2 (2021): Número atemático; 442-470 ; 2447-9551 (2021)
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Espraiamento do conservadorismo no Brasil das mídias sociais ; Spread of conservatism in Brazil on social networks
Paiva, Síria Maria Andrade. - : Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2021. : Brasil, 2021. : UFRN, 2021. : Serviço Social, 2021. : Departamento de Serviço Social, 2021
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