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| Title: | Phonotactics as phonology: knowledge of a complex restriction in Dutch |
| Author: | René Kager |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.let.uu.nl/~Rene.Kager/personal/ |
| Institution: | Universiteit Utrecht |
| Author: | Joseph V Pater |
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| Institution: | University of Massachusetts |
| Linguistic Field: | Phonology |
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| Abstract: | The Dutch lexicon contains very few sequences of a long vowel followed by a consonant cluster whose second member is a non-coronal. We provide experimental evidence that Dutch speakers have implicit knowledge of this gap, which cannot be reduced to the probability of segmental sequences or to word-likeness as measured by neighbourhood density. The experiment also suggests that the ill-formedness of this sequence is mediated by syllable structure: it has a weaker effect on speakers' judgements when the last consonant begins a new syllable. We provide an account in terms of Hayes & Wilson's (2008) maximum entropy model of phonotactics, using constraints that go beyond the complexity permitted by their model of constraint induction. |
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This article appears in Phonology Vol. 29, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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