The limits of the free ride in morphophonemic learning. Evidence from Catalan
Clàudia Pons-Moll
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004357
December 2018
The free ride strategy (McCarthy 2005) is challenged when the input-output mapping(s) derived from morphophonemic dynamic alternations and which are potentially generalized to non-alternating items are not univocal, that is, when the alternating [B]s derive from more than one underlying representation. When restrictiveness (M >> F) leads to a non-consummated free ride and it is no longer exploitable, efficiency (F >> F, etc.) (Bermúdez-Otero 2003, 2006) comes into play to consummate, conclusively, the free ride.
| Format: | [ pdf ] |
| Reference: | lingbuzz/004357 (please use that when you cite this article) |
| Published in: | Handout of the poster presented at Going Romance 2018, Utrecht University |
| keywords: | underlying representations, morphophonemic learning, free-ride, richness of the base, lexicon optimization, vowel reduction, non-alternating items, phonology |