Directionality and (Un)natural Classes in Syncretism

Directionality and (un)natural Classes in Syncretism

Syncretism, where a single form corresponds to multiple morphosyntactic functions, is pervasive in languages with inflectional morphology. Its interpretation highlights the contrast between different views of the status of morphology. For some, morphology lacks independent structure, and syncretism reflects the internal structure of morphosyntactic features. For others, morphological structure ...

the translators agency and ideological manipulation in translation: the case of political texts in translation classes in iran

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Inflectional Syncretism And Corpora

This paper describes a novel undertaking: comparing the relationship between grammatical ambiguity (syncretism) in nouns, as represented in a default inheritance hierarchy, with textual frequency distributions. In order to do this we consider a language with a reasonable number of grammatical distinctions and where syncretism occurs in different morphological classes. We investigated this relat...

A Computational Model of General Rule Learning with Unnatural Classes

This paper presents the results of a computational model of generalized phonological rule learning (Calamaro and Jarosz, 2012), which is used to model experimental studies on the learning of phonotactic patterns governed by natural and unnatural classes. I focus on two papers with conflicting results on the learnability of natural and unnatural rules. Saffran and Thiessen (2003) find that a pho...

Jewish Teenagers’ Syncretism