Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms
This paper investigates whether and how speakers track the relative frequency of different patterns of alternation in the lexicon, by investigating speakers' behavior when they are faced with unpredictability in allomorph selection. We conducted a wug test on Seoul Korean verb paradigms, testin...
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| description | This paper investigates whether and how speakers track the relative frequency of different patterns of alternation in the lexicon, by investigating speakers' behavior when they are faced with unpredictability in allomorph selection. We conducted a wug test on Seoul Korean verb paradigms, testing whether speakers can generalize reliable lexical patterns. The test was performed in two directions. In forward formation test, the pre-vocalic base and pre-consonantal non-base forms were the stimulus and response, respectively, whereas in backward formation test, the stimulus-response relation was switched. The results show patterns approximating statistical patterns in Seoul Korean verb lexicon, thus confirming the lexical frequency matching reported in many previous studies. However, contrary to the conventional assumption, the results of the backward formation test are consistent with lexical frequencies relevant for the forward formation, not backward formation. This observed asymmetry is broadly consistent with the single base hypothesis (Albright 2002a, b, 2005, 2008), in which forward, as opposed to backward formation rules play a privileged role in speakers' morphological grammar. KEYWORDS: allomorph selection, alternation, Seoul Korean, single base hypothesis, wug
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1129152022-09-27T18:48:39Z Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms Jun, Jongho Albright, Adam Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Albright, Adam This paper investigates whether and how speakers track the relative frequency of different patterns of alternation in the lexicon, by investigating speakers' behavior when they are faced with unpredictability in allomorph selection. We conducted a wug test on Seoul Korean verb paradigms, testing whether speakers can generalize reliable lexical patterns. The test was performed in two directions. In forward formation test, the pre-vocalic base and pre-consonantal non-base forms were the stimulus and response, respectively, whereas in backward formation test, the stimulus-response relation was switched. The results show patterns approximating statistical patterns in Seoul Korean verb lexicon, thus confirming the lexical frequency matching reported in many previous studies. However, contrary to the conventional assumption, the results of the backward formation test are consistent with lexical frequencies relevant for the forward formation, not backward formation. This observed asymmetry is broadly consistent with the single base hypothesis (Albright 2002a, b, 2005, 2008), in which forward, as opposed to backward formation rules play a privileged role in speakers' morphological grammar. KEYWORDS: allomorph selection, alternation, Seoul Korean, single base hypothesis, wug test 2017-12-21T14:20:47Z 2017-12-21T14:20:47Z 2016-09 2016-06 2017-12-20T16:57:55Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0022-2267 1469-7742 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112915 Jun, Jongho, and Adam Albright. “Speakers’ Knowledge of Alternations Is Asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean Verb Paradigms.” Journal of Linguistics, vol. 53, no. 03, Aug. 2017, pp. 567–611. © 2016 Cambridge University Press https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-8563 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226716000293 Journal of Linguistics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press (CUP) Cambridge University Press |
| spellingShingle | Jun, Jongho Albright, Adam Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms |
| title | Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms |
| title_full | Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms |
| title_fullStr | Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms |
| title_short | Speakers’ knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical: Evidence from Seoul Korean verb paradigms |
| title_sort | speakers knowledge of alternations is asymmetrical evidence from seoul korean verb paradigms |
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