Emergent positional privilege in novel English blends
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3011964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elliott Moreton, Jennifer L Smith (0000-0001-6376-070X), Katya Pertsova (0000-0001-8980-4838), Rachel Broad, Brandon Prickett (0000-0001-9217-2130) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 347-380 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| 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.2017.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W2625427509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
We present evidence from experiments on novel blend formation showing that adult English speakers have access to constraints that give phonological privilege to HEADS, NOUNS, and PROPER NOUNS, even though the nonblend phonology provides no evidence that such constraints are generally active in the grammar of English. Our results (i) demonstrate that these positional constraints are universally available; (ii) confirm that the lexical category ‘proper noun’ has the status of a strong position, which has broader implications for the role of lexical categories in positional privilege effects; and (iii) confirm that strong positions based on salience from nonphonetic sources (such as morphosyntactic, semantic, or psycholinguistic salience) participate in position-specific phonological phenomena
Cognitive psychology · Grammar · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Phonology · Privilege (computing) · Salience (neuroscience) · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |