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Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar 1 Introduction 1.1 Wiese’s and Wunderlich’s dilemmas Plurals in the native stratum of German nouns exhibit a complex interlacing of phonologically unpredictable lexical classes and broad, virtually exceptionless generalizations across them. This analytic tension between pre...
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 45(1), 2009, pp. 1–31© School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Polanddoi:10.2478/v10010-009-0002-xHYPOTHESES OF NATURAL PHONOLOGYPATRICIADONEGAN1ANDDAVIDSTAMPE2University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa1donegan@hawaii.edu,2stampe@hawaii.eduABSTR...
We propose that speakers are biased against learning a discontinuous treatment of the sonority scale: since French prevents deletion of low sonority segments (obstruents and nasals), learners expect the deletion pattern to continue to follow the sonority scale, making liquids either less deletable or...