The distribution of phonological word domains: A probabilistic typology

Bickel, Balthasar; Hildebrandt, Kristine A.; Schiering, René; Grijzenhout, Janet; Kabak, Barış

doi:10.1515/9783110217100.1.47

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“…Lest the reader think that recent work has closed the case on any notion of wordhood, I end this review by pointing out some of the empirical, methodological, and conceptual problems of the studies that are critical of the notion of the word reviewed above. The typological research on phonological wordhood domains conducted by Bickel, Hildebrandt, and Schiering () and Schiering and Bickel () did not focus on morphophonological processes above the word (e.g., phonological phrase) . It is possible that inclusion of higher‐level phonological processes may have revealed more significant clustering in patterns.…”

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Beyond grammatical and phonological words

Tallman

2020

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This paper reviews recent research on the cross-linguistic comparison of wordhood domains. A prominent solution to misalignments in wordhood domains is to distinguish between grammatical (morphosyntactic, morphological) words and phonological (prosodic) words. Recent studies reveal problems with this solution insofar as it is meant to serve as a basis for cross-linguistic comparison. Language-internal divergences within morphosyntactic domains and the phonological domains are not straightforwardly handled by the grammatical-phonological word distinction. Moreover, cross-linguistic variation in the motivation for these constituents is such that it is not clear that the grammatical/phonological word of one language is comparable to that of the next. Recent descriptive and typological studies seek to overcome these problems by questioning some of the methodological and conceptual assumptions underlying the concept of a word and the interpretation of wordhood diagnostics.

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Beyond grammatical and phonological words

Tallman

2020

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“…While the difference between phonological and grammatical dimensions of morphological boundedness is well-established (Dixon 1977;Hall & Kleinhenz 1999;Dixon & Aikhenvald 2002;Anderson 2005;Hall et al 2008, etc. ), research over the past decade has documented additional variation in how elements can be bound together within phonology and within grammar (Hyman 2008;Bickel et al 2009;Post 2009;Schiering et al 2010;Hildebrandt 2007;Haspelmath 2011).…”

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Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers: evidence from Sino-Tibetan

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Morphological complexity is expected to decrease under mass admixture from adult second language speakers. While this has been chiefly shown for morphological richness, an unresolved question is whether the effect extends to aspects of morphological boundedness. Here we report a case study of Sino-Tibetan verbs, contrasting verbal expressions of two languages with very large (Chinese, Burmese) and of two languages with very small (Bunan, Chintang) numbers of second language speakers. We find that while the amount of second language speakers accounts for differences in the range and number of inflectional categories (degrees of synthesis), it does not affect the way in which morphological constituents are bound together, reflecting fortification through a mix of diachronically stable and universally preferred patterns. This calls for theoretical models that narrow down the range of changes that are driven by second language speaker admixture, and for extensive empirical testing on a global scale.

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“…Studies have shown that it is possible to do this to distinguish between dialects (Spruit, 2006 ) and for other domains such as for phonology (Macklin-Cordes and Round, 2015 ). Probabilistic typologies go one step further by coding the probability or frequency with which a particular construction is observed, building in an inherent measure of uncertainty (Bickel et al, 2009 ).…”

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Robust, Causal, and Incremental Approaches to Investigating Linguistic Adaptation

Roberts

2018

Front. Psychol.

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This paper discusses the maximum robustness approach for studying cases of adaptation in language. We live in an age where we have more data on more languages than ever before, and more data to link it with from other domains. This should make it easier to test hypotheses involving adaptation, and also to spot new patterns that might be explained by adaptation. However, there is not much discussion of the overall approach to research in this area. There are outstanding questions about how to formalize theories, what the criteria are for directing research and how to integrate results from different methods into a clear assessment of a hypothesis. This paper addresses some of those issues by suggesting an approach which is causal, incremental and robust. It illustrates the approach with reference to a recent claim that dry environments select against the use of precise contrasts in pitch. Study 1 replicates a previous analysis of the link between humidity and lexical tone with an alternative dataset and finds that it is not robust. Study 2 performs an analysis with a continuous measure of tone and finds no significant correlation. Study 3 addresses a more recent analysis of the link between humidity and vowel use and finds that it is robust, though the effect size is small and the robustness of the measurement of vowel use is low. Methodological robustness of the general theory is addressed by suggesting additional approaches including iterated learning, a historical case study, corpus studies, and studying individual speech.

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The distribution of phonological word domains: A probabilistic typology

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

Beyond grammatical and phonological words

Beyond grammatical and phonological words

Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers: evidence from Sino-Tibetan

Robust, Causal, and Incremental Approaches to Investigating Linguistic Adaptation

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