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