Spanish phonology and morphology : experimental and quantitative perspectives / David Eddington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eddington, David.

Series:

Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 53.

Studies in functional and structural linguistics, 0165-7712 ; v. 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Phonology.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 197 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004.

Summary:

Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies, psycholinguistic experiments, corpus data, and computer simulations. Arguments are presented to demonstrate that these kinds of evidence are crucial for establishing theories of language that relate to the psychological mechanisms involved in producing and comprehending speech, in contrast to theories about abstract linguistic structure. A range of topics is covered including morphological parsing, nominalization, stress, syllable structure, diphthongization, gender, morphophonemic alternations, and epenthesis. An appendix is included that serves as a primer on quantitative linguistic research. It discusses how some of the cited experiments were carried out, provides an introduction to statistical analysis, and discusses tools that are available for conducting quantitative research on the Spanish language.

Contents:

Spanish Phonology and Morphology

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The psychological status of linguistic analyses

1. Introduction

1.1. The psychological status of formal mechanisms

1.2. Reasons for doubting the psychological reality of linguistic analyses in the weak sense

1.3. The relationship between formal and empirical analyses

1.4. Conclusions

2. The role of experiments in linguistics

2. Introduction

2.1. The role of experiments in the search for psychological realities

2.2. Strong and weak reality

2.3. Criticisms of psycholinguistic experiments

2.4. Examples of experimentally acquired evidence

2.5. Conclusions

3. Testing untested notions

3. Introduction

3.1. Vowel opening in the wake of s-deletion

3.2. Secondary stress

3.3. Coronal and velar softening

3.4. Depalatalization of /ñ/ and /1'210/

3.5. Intonation differences between English and Spanish

3.6. Change-of-state verbs

3.7. Conclusion

4. Frequency N Counts V

4. Introduction

4.1. Frequency as a factor in language processing

4.2. Explaining epenthesis in terms of frequency

4.3. Vosotros and vos imperatives

4.4. Word frequency

4.5. The frequency of word combinations

4.6. Conclusion

5. Linguistic processing is exemplar-based

5. Introduction

5.1. Processing by exemplars

5.2. Exemplar-based models

5.3. Analogical modeling of language

5.4. An analogical simulation of Spanish gender assignment

5.5. An analogical simulation of Spanish nominals in -ión

5.6. Accounting for dialectal differences through analogy

5.7. Conclusions

6. Diphthongs, syllables, and stress

6. Introduction

6.1. Diphthongization

6.2. Syllables

6.3. Stress

6.4. Conclusions.

7. Morphology in word recognition

7. Introduction

7.1. Orthographic and semantic priming

7.2. Morphological priming

7.3. Morphological effects in Spanish

7.4. Morphology as associations between lexical items

7.5. Gender morphemes

7.6. Plural morphemes

7.7. Conclusions

8. Conclusions

Appendix - Experimental design, statistics, and research tools

9. Introduction

9.1. Correlation

9.2. Chi square and multiple-choice experiments

9.3. Logistic regression with Varbrul

9.4. Analysis of variance and lexical decision tasks

9.5. Conducting experiments

9.6. Internal and external validity

9.7. Tools for researching Spanish phonology and morphology

Notes

References

Name index

Subject index

The series STUDIES IN FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160028

9781282160026

1282160028

9789027294845

9027294844

OCLC:

70773791