Thek/ϕ alternation in Turkish: Some experimental evidence for its productivity

This article presents evidence that a relatively minor regularity in the morphophonemics of Turkish is psychologically real for speakers of that language. The experimental procedure used was to present subjects with nonsense words ending in k] which they then had to use in a phonological environment that could be expected to condition a deletion of the final consonant in polysyllabic forms. Subjects performed according to expectation, retaining the final k] in monosyllables and dropping it in polysyllables.