Consonant Clusters Across Morpheme Boundaries: Polish Morphonotactic Inventory and its Acquisition

Abstract

Morphonotactics is a term introduced by Dressler and Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (2006) to refer to the interaction of phonotactics and morphotactics. This paper examines the acquisition of phonotactics and morphonotactics, i.e. consonant clusters occurring within morphemes and across morpheme boundaries. It is hypothesized that morphonotactic clusters will be better retained in production than lexical clusters as they carry significant morphological information. Additionally, the acquisition of consonant clusters will be investigated in terms of markedness. With respect to markedness, two hypotheses have been put forward. Firstly, less marked (preferred) sequences will emerge earlier. Secondly, preferred clusters will be retained in production better.

A computational approach to morphonotactics: evidence from German

“…Morphonotactic clusters are thereby assigned a morphological function in processing (Korecky-Kröll et al, 2014), which is assumed to facilitate processing and acquisition of complex consonantal structures (for acquisition, see Kamandulyte, 2006;Freiberger, 2007;Zydorowicz, 2007Zydorowicz, , 2009Zydorowicz, , 2010 and, with a different approach, Marshall and van der Lely, 2006).…”

Ikimokyklinio ir priešmokyklinio amžiaus vaikų gebėjimas ištarti priebalsių samplaikas

“…Dvejų metų lenkų ir anglų kalbos vaikai priebalsių samplaikose praleidžia tą garsą, kuris yra balsingesnis, pavyzdžiui, vietoje nt ar tr ištaria tik t, vietoje dr ištaria tik d priebalsį, vietoje pl ištaria p, t. y. vietoje please [pliz] ištaria [piz], vietoje spoon [spun] pasako [pun] ir pan. (Zydorowicz, 2007;Pater, Barlow 2003). Tokia tendencija pastebima ir vyresnių vaikų kalboje (Zydorowicz, 2007).…”

“…(Zydorowicz, 2007;Pater, Barlow 2003). Tokia tendencija pastebima ir vyresnių vaikų kalboje (Zydorowicz, 2007). Ohala (1999) pastebėjo, kad šis modelis veikia priebalsių samplaikas, esančias ir žodžio pradžioje, ir pabaigoje, pavyzdžiui, vaikai vietoje žodžio snake…”

Complex Natural Systems for Language

“…The above hypotheses were tested in a series of studies on the lexica and corpora of several languages (cf. Zydorowicz et al, 2016 2 ) as well as against the data from first (Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, 2019;Zydorowicz, 2010) and second language acquisition , 2011Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Zydorowicz, 2014).…”