In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Ellen Broselow and Hamid Ouali
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 317] 2011
► pp. 205–244
Probability matching in Arabic and Romance morphology
Published online: 21 December 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.317.10wal
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.317.10wal
This study investigates the role of probability matching in the selection of morphological lexical representations by adults. Whereas children rely on application of a morphological default that results in regularization, adults match probabilities with pre-existing lexical distributions. This hypothesis is supported with a series of case studies involving grammatical gender assignment to loanwords from Arabic to Iberian Romance and vice versa, and pluralization in second-language acquisition of Arabic.
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