Stages of Acquisition without Ranking Biases: the Roles of Frequency and Markedness in Phonological Learning
Jarosz, Gaja. 2007. Stages of Acquisition without Ranking Biases: the Roles of Frequency and Markedness in Phonological Learning. In M. Becker (ed.), UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics.
Abstract
This paper shows that Maximum Likelihood Learning of Lexicons and Grammars (MLG; Jarosz 2006) derives acquisition stages based on the statistical phonotactics of the target language, without needing to posit an explicit M >> F ranking bias.
