Connectionism vs. Rules in Diachronic Morphology

Miret, Fernando Sánchez; Koliadis, Antonios; Dressler, Wolfgang U.

doi:10.1515/flih.1997.18.1-2.149

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“…El debate en torno a la morfología como parte independiente de la gramática (modelos dualistas o conexionistas) ha generado planteamientos explicativos distintos sobre procesos de adquisición (Rumelhart y McClelland, 1986;Pinker y Prince, 1988;Plunkett y Marchman 1991, 1993Bybee, 1991;Daugherty y Hare, 1994;Gasser, 1994Gasser, , 1997 o sobre procesos diacrónicos (Dalton-Puffer, 1993;Bybee, 1995;Sánchez Miret et al, 1998;Martín Vegas, 2007), pero no ha llegado a condicionar la didáctica de la formación de palabras en la enseñanza del español como lengua materna. La atención que ha tenido la morfología en la Lingüística Aplicada ha sido mínima si se compara con el análisis del discurso, la lexicografía o los procesos de alfabetización, que no se centran en el conocimiento de la estructura de la lengua sino, en su mayoría, en la comprensión como un mecanismo cognitivo no estrictamente lingüístico.…”

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Conocimiento de la morfología, conciencia morfológica y aprendizaje léxico. Objetivos “difusos” en la Enseñanza Secundaria

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2021

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2021

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“…The 'analogical' use of a novel item in an existing pattern is in fact heavily based on similarity to existing items rather than on more general symbolic rules (Bybee 2010: 57). 23 In the last few decades, scholars have provided empirical cross-linguistic evidence that schemas (and, more generally, a 'family resemblance' structure) underlie both synchronic organisation and diachronic development of morphological and semantic categories: see, among others, the development of irregular past-tense forms in English (Bybee & Slobin 1982), non-standard Italian past tense in -iedi (Miret et al 1997), the plural of German nouns ending in full vowel (Ko¨pke 1988), the rise and fall of some irregularities in Latin nominal morphology (Lazzeroni 2005, Rovai 2008b, gender categorization in Dyirbal (Lakoff 1987) and, probably, Indo-European (Lazzeroni 1997), and both basic and superordinate semantic categories (Rosch & Mervis 1975). body parts (brachia N.PL 'arms', calcanea N.PL 'heels', cilia N.PL 'eyelashes', genua N.PL 'knees').…”

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Between Feminine Singular and Neuter Plural: Re‐Analysis Patterns

Rovai

2012

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Starting from the investigation of some neuter o stems that attest either masculine or feminine doublets in Latin, this paper discusses the development of the thematic neuter and its status within the Latin gender system. Thematic neuters may be regarded as one of the latest innovations in the Indo-European family, and most of them developed independently within the individual languages. Latin evidence shows in fact that some neuter o stems were created at a historical stage from ancient masculines of the same inflectional class. Particular attention is paid here to a set of nouns exhibiting fluctuations between a second-declension neuter o stem and a first-declension feminine a stem. These gender variations throw light on a progressive change of gender, and a detailed chronological examination actually reveals that all these forms are originally feminine nouns re-analysed as thematic neuters -an evolutionary pattern that is the opposite of what is currently assumed. This gender change can be related to the diachronic development of a number of morpho-syntactic patterns, which may have favoured such a re-analysis and which might have led to the genesis of these thematic neuters as a pure inner-Latin phenomenon.

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Lexical entries and rules of language: A multidisciplinary study of German inflection

Clahsen¹

1999

Behav Brain Sci

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Following much work in linguistic theory, it is hypothesized that the language faculty has a modular structure and consists of two basic components, a lexicon of (structured) entries and a computational system of combinatorial operations to form larger linguistic expressions from lexical entries. This target article provides evidence for the dual nature of the language faculty by describing recent results of a multidisciplinary investigation of German inflection. We have examined: (1) its linguistic representation, focussing on noun plurals and verb inflection (participles), (2) processes involved in the way adults produce and comprehend inflected words, (3) brain potentials generated during the processing of inflected words, and (4) the way children acquire and use inflection. It will be shown that the evidence from all these sources converges and supports the distinction between lexical entries and combinatorial operations.Our experimental results indicate that adults have access to two distinct processing routes, one accessing (irregularly) inflected entries from the mental lexicon and another involving morphological decomposition of (regularly) inflected words into stem+affix representations. These two processing routes correspond to the dual structure of the linguistic system. Results from event-related potentials confirm this linguistic distinction at the level of brain structures. In children's language, we have also found these two processes to be clearly dissociated; regular and irregular inflection are used under different circumstances, and the constraints under which children apply them are identical to those of the adult linguistic system.Our findings will be explained in terms of a linguistic model that maintains the distinction between the lexicon and the computational system but replaces the traditional view of the lexicon as a simple list of idiosyncrasies with the notion of internally structured lexical representations.

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Connectionism vs. Rules in Diachronic Morphology

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Conocimiento de la morfología, conciencia morfológica y aprendizaje léxico. Objetivos “difusos” en la Enseñanza Secundaria

Conocimiento de la morfología, conciencia morfológica y aprendizaje léxico. Objetivos “difusos” en la Enseñanza Secundaria

Between Feminine Singular and Neuter Plural: Re‐Analysis Patterns

Lexical entries and rules of language: A multidisciplinary study of German inflection

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