Studien zur deutschen Lautstruktur

Koekkoek, B. J.; Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich

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“…We have shown that we can assess the productivity of a whole system by inspecting how well the model's networks generalize to understanding and producing unseen forms. Several researchers have suggested that the productivity of rival affixes (e.g., -al, -ion, -ment) should be assessed jointly (Wurzel 1970;Zwanenburg 1983;Corbin 1983). The present model for Maltese provides one way in which this suggestion can be implemented: many different suffixes for sound plurals, and many different templates for broken plurals,are all considered jointly.…”

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A discriminative lexicon approach to word comprehension, production, and processing: Maltese plurals

Nieder¹,

Chuang²,

Vijver³

et al. 2023

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Comprehending and producing words is a natural process for human speakers. In linguistic theory, investigating this process formally and computationally is often done by focusing on forms only. By moving beyond the world of forms, we show in this study that the Discriminative Lexicon (DL) model operating with word comprehension as a mapping of form onto meaning and word production as a mapping of meaning onto form generates accurate predictions about what meanings listeners understand and what forms speakers produce. Furthermore, we show that measures derived from the computational model are predictive for human reaction times. Although mathematically very simple, the linear mappings between form and meaning posited by our model are powerful enough to capture the complexity and productivity of a Semitic language with a complex hybrid morphological system. 1

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confidence: 99%