Implications of an Exemplar-Theoretic Model of Phoneme Genesis: A Velar Palatalization Case Study.

Diachronic velar palatalization is taken as the case study for modeling the emergence of a new phoneme category. The spread of a palatalized variant through the lexicon is treated as a stochastic classification task for the listener/learner. The model combines two measures of similarity to determine...

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Publicado en:Language & Speech Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 3 - 42
Autor principal: Morley, Rebecca L
Formato: case study research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Mar2014
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