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Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains
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In: ISSN: 1664-1078 ; Frontiers in Psychology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03435802 ; Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers, 2021, 12, pp.583. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659⟩ (2021)
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International audience ; Relationships between phonological and morphological complexity have long been proposed in the linguistic literature, with empirical investigations often seeking complexity trade-offs. Positive complexity correlations tend not to be viewed in terms of motivations. We argue that positive complexity correlations can be diachronically well-motivated, emerging from crosslinguistically prevalent processes of language change. We examine the correlation between syllable complexity and morphological synthesis, hypothesizing that the process of grammaticalization motivates a positive relationship between the two features. To test this, we conduct a typological survey of 95 diverse languages and a corpus study of 21 languages with substantive (predominantly >10,000 words) corpora from the DoReCo project. The first study establishes a significant positive correlation between syllable complexity, measured in terms of maximal syllable patterns, and the index of synthesis (morpheme/word ratio). The second study tests the hypothesis that the relationship between syllable complexity and synthesis holds at local (word-initial and word-final) levels and within noun and verb types, as predicted by a grammaticalization account. While the findings of the corpus study are limited in their statistical power, the observed tendencies are consistent with our predictions. This study contributes important findings to the complexity literature, as well as a novel method which incorporates broad typological sampling and deep corpus analysis.
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03435802/file/fpsyg-12-638659.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03435802 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03435802/document https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659
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Optimization of morpheme length: a cross-linguistic assessment of Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws
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In: Linguistics Vanguard ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03471186 ; Linguistics Vanguard, 2021, 7 (s3), ⟨10.1515/lingvan-2019-0076⟩ (2021)
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Silent pauses and interjections as prosodic cues for direct speech: A cross-linguistic study on three language documentationcorpora
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In: 6th Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03551224 ; 6th Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory, Dec 2021, London, United Kingdom (2021)
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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages
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In: Linguistics Vanguard ; https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-03167445 ; Linguistics Vanguard, 2021, 7 (1), pp.20190063. ⟨10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063⟩ (2021)
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Combining documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics to advance corpus-based typology
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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages
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Combining documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics to advance corpus-based typology
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Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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Corrigendum: Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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RefCo: An initiative to develop a set of quality criteria for fieldwork corpora
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In: Actes des 2èmes journées scientifiques du Groupement de Recherche Linguistique Informatique Formelle et de Terrain (LIFT). ; 2èmes journées scientifiques du Groupement de Recherche Linguistique Informatique Formelle et de Terrain (LIFT) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03047143 ; 2èmes journées scientifiques du Groupement de Recherche Linguistique Informatique Formelle et de Terrain (LIFT), 2020, Montrouge, France. pp.95-101 (2020)
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech ...
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Supplementary material to Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech
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