Grammaticality and Ungrammaticality in Phonology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2992874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andries W Coetzee (0000-0003-4535-3603, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-257 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.0.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2041966076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 60 |
In this article, I make two theoretical claims. (i) For some form to be grammatical in language L , it is not necessary that the form satisfy all constraints that are active in L ; that is, even grammatical forms can violate constraints. (ii) There are degrees of ungrammaticality; that is, not all ungrammatical forms are equally ungrammatical. I first show that these claims follow straightforwardly from the basic architecture of an optimality-theoretic grammar. I then show that the surface sound patterns used most widely in formal phonology cannot be used to test the truth of these two claims, but argue that results from speech processing experiments can. Finally, I discuss three experiments on the processing of nonwords of the form [stVt], [skVk], and [spVp] in English that were designed to test these claims, and show that both claims are confirmed by the results of the experiments
Grammar · Grammaticality · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Optimality theory · Phonological rule · Phonology · Test (biology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |