On the Relationship between Frequency, Features, and Markedness in Inflection: Experimental Evidence from Russian Nouns

Markedness has a long tradition in linguistics as a way to describe linguistic asymmetries. In this paper, I investigate an argument about the necessity of markedness as a tool for capturing the structural distribution of inflectional affixes and predicting the behavioral consequences of that distri...

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Main Author: Jeff Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/3/130