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The role of attraction-repulsion dynamics in simulating the emergence of inflectional class systems ...
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Dynamic models of paradigm change can elucidate how the simplest of processes may lead to unexpected outcomes, and thereby can reveal new potential explanations for observed linguistic phenomena. Ackerman & Malouf (2015) present a model in which inflectional systems reduce in disorder through the action of an attraction-only dynamic, in which lexemes only ever grow more similar to one another over time. Here we emphasise that: (1) Attraction-only models cannot evolve the structured diversity which characterises true inflectional systems, because they inevitably remove all variation; and (2) Models with both attraction and repulsion enable the emergence of systems that are strikingly reminiscent of morphomic structure such as inflection classes. Thus, just one small ingredient -- change based on dissimilarity -- separates models that tend inexorably to uniformity, and which therefore are implausible for inflectional morphology, from those which evolve stable, morphome-like structure. These models have the ... : International Symposium of Morphology 2021 ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences; J.5
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2111.08465 https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08465
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Comparability and measurement in typological science: the bright future for linguistics ...
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Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies: Supplementary materials S6–S7 ...
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High-definition phonotactic data contain phylogenetic signal ...
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High-definition phonotactic data contain phylogenetic signal ...
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Linguistic and ethnographic documentation of Kayardild
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Round, Erich R.. - : The Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2007
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