Dynamics of phonological cognition |
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| Authors: | Gafos Adamantios I Benus Stefan |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Linguistics, New York University and Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut;Department of Computer Science, Columbia University |
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| Abstract: | A fundamental problem in spoken language is the duality between the continuous aspects of phonetic performance and the discrete aspects of phonological competence. We study 2 instances of this problem from the phenomenon of voicing neutralization and vowel harmony. In each case, we present a model where the experimentally observed continuous distinctions are linked to the discreteness of phonological form using the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics. |
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| Keywords: | Grammar Subsymbolic paradigm Phonology Phonetics Nonlinear dynamics |
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