Publication Date
January 2005
Journal or Book Title
Catalan Journal of Linguistics
Abstract
As language learners begin to analyze morphologically complex words, they face the problem of projecting underlying representations from the morphophonemic alternations that they observe. Research on learnability in Optimality Theory has started to address this problem, and this article deals with one aspect of it. When alternation data tell the learner that some surface [B]s are derived from underlying /A/s, the learner will under certain conditions generalize by deriving all [B]s, even nonalternating ones, from /A/s. An adequate learning theory must therefore incorporate a procedure that allows nonalternating [B]s to take a «free ride» on the /A/ →[B] unfaithful map.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.112
Volume
4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
McCarthy, John J., "Taking a free ride in morphophonemic learning" (2005). Catalan Journal of Linguistics. 81.
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.112
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