32.978, Books: The complexity and learnability of phonological patterns: Seinhorst

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:36:31
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The complexity and learnability of phonological patterns: Seinhorst

 


Title: The complexity and learnability of phonological patterns 
Subtitle: Simulations, experiments, typology 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-complexity-and-learnability-of-phonological-patterns 


Author: Klaas Seinhorst

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933691 Pages: 224 Price: Europe EURO 32


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the relation between the complexity of
phonological patterns, their learnability by human learners, and their
typological distributions.

The research presented in this book is divided into three parts. The first
part is dedicated to computational evidence and aims to show how the building
blocks of phonological patterns emerge in a neural network as it is exposed to
auditory and lexical distributions. Taking a diachronic approach, I show that
sound systems evolve towards stable states, regardless of their initial
distribution.

The second part describes two experiments with human learners, establishing
the learnability of a number of phonological patterns of various degrees of
complexity. The results suggest that more complex patterns are more difficult
to learn, and that learners reduce the complexity of their input if possible.

The third part assesses attested sound changes and plosive inventories in
terms of their complexity. The typological data show that sound change does
not necessarily reduce complexity, and that plosive inventories differ greatly
in terms of their complexity. The tension between the experimental and
typological data sheds light on the interaction of different forces –
cognitive, auditory and articulatory – that shape phonological typology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)

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