Autore
Marzi, Claudia

Titolo
Modelling the interaction of regularity and morphological structure: the case of Russian verb inflection
Periodico
Lingue e linguaggio
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 37 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 131 - Pagina finale: 156

The main focus of this paper is to investigate how aspects of morphologicalregularity may have an impact on early stages of word processing,prior to full lexical access. Here I explore the interaction of regularity andmorphological structure by using a computational simulation of the processof learning Russian verb forms, without any morpho-syntactic or morphosemanticadditional information. With a recurrent variant of self-organisingmemories, namely a Temporal Self-Organising Map, or TSOM, experimentalresults allow an investigation of the impact of incremental learning and onlineprocessing principles on paradigm organisation, by assessing the di􁞶erentialimpact of several aspects of regularity, ranging from formal transparency andpredictability to allomorphy, on the processing/learning behaviour in a connectionistframework. The proposed analysis suggests a performance-orientedaccount of in􁞸ectional regularity in morphology, whereby perception of morphologicalstructure is not the by-product of the design of the human wordprocessor, with rules separated from exceptions, but rather an emergent propertyof the dynamic self-organisation of stored lexical representations, dependenton the adaptive processing history of in􁞸ected word forms, intrinsicallygraded and probabilistic.



SICI: 1720-9331(2020)37:1<131:MTIORA>2.0.ZU;2-9
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