This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm. It is aimed at postgraduate students and linguists in general whose research interests lie in phonology, phonetics, and/or psycholinguistics. It is useful for linguists who are struggling to figure out how to effectively design an artificial phonological grammar and those who have not designed experiments on their own but would like to do so as an additional means to testing linguistic theories. This book is also a valuable resource for anyone building crosslinguistic artificial grammar paradigm resources.
?Yu-Leng Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Feng Chia University. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto in 2016. Before joining the Feng Chia University, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, laboratory phonology, and sociophonetics. Her publications include a journal paper, a book chapter and conference proceedings, and she has presented her work - ranging from learning bias, speech perception and production, tonal studies, and comparative studies among Mandarin, Taiwan Southern Min, Cantonese, and English - at several international conferences.
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Yu-Leng Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Feng Chia University. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto in 2016. Before joining the Feng Chia University, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, laboratory phonology, and sociophonetics. Her publications include a journal paper, a book chapter and conference proceedings, and she has presented her work ranging from learning bias, speech perception and production, tonal studies, and comparative studies among Mandarin, Taiwan Southern Min, Cantonese, and English at several international conferences.
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?Yu-Leng Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Feng Chia University. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto in 2016. Before joining the Feng Chia University, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, laboratory phonology, and sociophonetics. Her publications include a journal paper, a book chapter and conference proceedings, and she has presented her work - ranging from learning bias, speech perception and production, tonal studies, and comparative studies among Mandarin, Taiwan Southern Min, Cantonese, and English - at several international conferences.
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Yu-Leng Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Feng Chia University. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto in 2016. Before joining the Feng Chia University, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, laboratory phonology, and sociophonetics. Her publications include a journal paper, a book chapter and conference proceedings, and she has presented her work ranging from learning bias, speech perception and production, tonal studies, and comparative studies among Mandarin, Taiwan Southern Min, Cantonese, and English at several international conferences.
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Chapter 1Introduction
1.1Universal implicational nasalized segment hierarchy
1.2Artificial grammar learning paradigm as the methodology
1.3Outline of the current study
Chapter 2An introduction to Vowel-consonant nasal harmony
2.1Typology of nasal vowel-consonant harmony
2.2Nasal vowel-consonant harmony with opaque segments
2.3Predictions of the nasalized segment hierarchy
Chapter 3Introduction to artificial goals and challenges
3.1Assumptions of artificial grammar learning: poverty of the stimulus
3.2Natural markedness and substantive bias
3.2.1Implicational universals in substantive bias
3.2.2Statistical tendencies
3.2.3Robustness and learnability
3.2.4Summary
3.3Artificial grammar studies in substance bias
3.3.1Implicational universals involving a substance bias: palatalization
3.3.1.1Fronting effect
3.3.1.2Experimental design
3.3.1.3Procedure
3.3.1.4Results and analysis
3.3.2Implicational universals involving a formal complexity bias: sibilant harmony
3.3.3Implicational universals involving a substantive bias: round vowel harmony
3.3.4Sonority hierarchy
3.3.5Implicational universals: natural classes/features
3.3.5.1Nasal assimilation and dissimilation
3.3.5.2Height-voice and voice-voice
3.3.6Summary
3.4Formal complexity bias
3.4.1Domain-general: attribute-based object classification
3.4.1.1Contiguity-similarity tradeoff
3.4.1.2Feature agreement
3.4.2Domain-specific: natural language
3.5Summary
Chapter 4Experiment 1
4.1Testing the prediction of learnability
4.2Determining which grammar is learned better: learner types
4.3Rationale of the current design
4.4Methods
4.4.1Language choice
4.4.1.1Inventory, phonotactics and syllable shapes
4.4.1.2Limited nasal spreading
4.4.1.3Reasons for choosing S. Min speakers as participants
4.4.2Design
4.4.2.1Shapes of words and syllable forms
4.4.2.2Stimuli
4.4.2.3Task
4.4.2.4Exposure and test phases
4.4.2.5Post-test and post-interview
4.4.3Participants
4.4.4Procedure
4.5Grouped statistics: Patterns 1 and 2
4.6Individual learner types
4.7Individual data: Patterns 1 (S(k)W(k)) and 2 (W(k)S(k))
4.7.1Categorization learner-generalizer4.7.2Categorization learner-generalized (opposite)
4.7.3Categorization learner-pattern learner
4.7.4Statistical learner-positional statistician
4.7.5Statistical learner-unbound nasalizer
4.8Discussion: learner types
4.8.1Possibility 1: reference to the sonority hierarchy type
4.8.2Possibility 2: reference to sonority natural classes
4.8.3Possibility 3: floor effect
4.8.4Possibility 4: game strategy
4.8.5Possibility 1 vs. Possibility 2
4.9Follow-up experiments:
4.9.1Hypothesis 1: game strategy
4.9.2Hypothesis 2: phonological processes
4.9.3Hypothesis 3: floor effect
4.10Methods
4.10.1Participants
4.11Grouped statistics: Patterns 3 kt(S) and 4 kt(W)
4.12Individual data: Patterns 3 kt(S) and 4 kt(W)
4.13General discussion: Patterns 1-4
4.13.1Inferential statistics
4.13.2Learner types
4.14Discussion: interactive approach vs. pure sonority natural classes
4.15Summary
Chapter 5Experiment 2: sonority effects
5.1Predictions: directionality (sonority hierarchy type)
5.2Sonority natural classes:
5.3Continuancy
5.4Summary
5.5Methods
5.5.1Materials<...
Titel
Substantive Bias and Natural Classes
Untertitel
An Empirical Approach
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9789811335341
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10.01.2019
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