Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology

Kate McCurdy; Sharon Goldwater; Adam Lopez

Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology

Kate McCurdy, Sharon Goldwater, Adam Lopez

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Abstract

Artificial language learning research has shown that, under some conditions, adult speakers tend to probability-match to inconsistent variation in their input, while in others, they regularize by reducing that variation. We demonstrate that this framework can characterize speaker behavior in a naturallanguage morphological inflection task: the lexicon can be used to estimate variation in speaker productions. In the task of German plural inflection, we find that speakers probabilitymatch a lexical distribution conditioned on phonology, and largely disregard an alternative possible strategy of conditional regularization based on grammatical gender.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Editors	Jennifer Culbertson, Andrew Perfors, Hugh Rabagliati, Veronica Ramenzoni
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society
Pages	635-642
Number of pages	8
Volume	44
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2022
Event	44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Toronto, Canada Duration: 27 Jul 2022 → 30 Jul 2022 Conference number: 44 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2022/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society
Volume	44
ISSN (Electronic)	1069-7977

Conference

Conference	44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Abbreviated title	CogSci 2022
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	27/07/22 → 30/07/22
Internet address	https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2022/

Keywords

Regularization
Morphology
Natural language

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Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Culbertson, J. (ed.), Perfors, A. (ed.), Rabagliati, H. (ed.) & Ramenzoni, V. (ed.), Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) eScholarship University of California. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; vol. 44)
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McCurdy, K., Goldwater, S., & Lopez, A. (2022). Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, pp. 635-642). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 44). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61v0r6f1

McCurdy, Kate ; Goldwater, Sharon ; Lopez, Adam. / Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. editor / Jennifer Culbertson ; Andrew Perfors ; Hugh Rabagliati ; Veronica Ramenzoni. Vol. 44 Cognitive Science Society, 2022. pp. 635-642 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society).

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Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology. / McCurdy, Kate; Goldwater, Sharon ; Lopez, Adam.

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Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology

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