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Shifting paradigms: gradient structure in morphology.

Jennifer B Hay1, R Harald Baayen

  • 1Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. jen.hay@canterbury.ac.nz

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|July 5, 2005
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This review explores word structure, separating symbolic rules from probabilistic networks. Evidence suggests morphological structure is graded, advancing linguistic theory by incorporating probability.

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • The study of word structure (morphology) is debated.
  • Current debates focus on symbolic rules versus probabilistic networks for explaining morphology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To disentangle symbolic/subsymbolic implementation from deterministic/probabilistic structure in morphology.
  • To review evidence for intrinsically graded morphological structure.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of evidence external to the symbolic/subsymbolic debate.
  • Analysis of existing linguistic theories on morphological structure.

Main Results:

  • Evidence indicates that morphological structure is intrinsically graded.

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  • Separating implementation from structure reveals new insights.

    • Conclusions:

    • Incorporating probability into grammatical models can resolve long-standing morphological puzzles.
    • A probabilistic approach offers a more nuanced understanding of word structure.