Perhaps a boring comment:
the baseline might be unrealistically poor and thus unsuitable for comparison.
There’s no reference to position. I could imagine that ‘sloppy’ is more similar to ‘shroppy’ than to ‘possly’ despite ‘possly’ having the same phonemic segments as ‘sloppy’ but ‘shroppy’ differing by two segments.
The other wonder is whether a psychological model of similarity (determined experimentally) would perform better than a phonological model. For example, in Paul Luce’s work a [b] is most readily confused with a voiced dental fricative while a voiced dental fricative is most confusable with its voiceless counterpart.
I’m afraid that my question is very similar to Kevin’s: how much of a specific context do the speakers need to consider when they are making an analogy? Also, considering that the more narrow context seems to work better in the case which seems to be more specific than the overall generalization (the authors state that in acquisition these verbs get generalized over), how applicable is this model for cases where more general rules apply?
Perhaps a boring comment:
the baseline might be unrealistically poor and thus unsuitable for comparison.
There’s no reference to position. I could imagine that ‘sloppy’ is more similar to ‘shroppy’ than to ‘possly’ despite ‘possly’ having the same phonemic segments as ‘sloppy’ but ‘shroppy’ differing by two segments.
The other wonder is whether a psychological model of similarity (determined experimentally) would perform better than a phonological model. For example, in Paul Luce’s work a [b] is most readily confused with a voiced dental fricative while a voiced dental fricative is most confusable with its voiceless counterpart.
I’m afraid that my question is very similar to Kevin’s: how much of a specific context do the speakers need to consider when they are making an analogy? Also, considering that the more narrow context seems to work better in the case which seems to be more specific than the overall generalization (the authors state that in acquisition these verbs get generalized over), how applicable is this model for cases where more general rules apply?