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The threshold of rule productivity in infants [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Most learning theories agree that the productivity of a rule or a pattern relies on regular exemplars being dominant over exceptions; the threshold for productivity is, however, unclear; moreover, gradient productivity levels are assumed for different ...
Rushen Shi, Emeryse Emond
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Fuzzy Property Grammars for Gradience in Natural Language
Mathematics, 2023 This paper introduces a new grammatical framework, Fuzzy Property Grammars (FPGr). This is a model based on Property Grammars and Fuzzy Natural Logic.
Adrià Torrens Urrutia +2 more
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Consistency in phonetic categorization predicts successful speech-in-noise perception [PDF]
JASA Express LettersListeners bin continuous changes in the speech signal into phonetic categories but vary in how consistently/discretely they do so. Categorization may relate to speech-in-noise (SIN) perception.
Rose Rizzi, Gavin M. Bidelman
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Gradience in linguistic data [PDF]
Lingua, 2005 This paper provides a survey of the theoretical and experimental findings on degrees of grammaticality, with a special focus on gradience in syntax. We first discuss the theoretical relevance of gradient data, and argue that such data should be elicited experimentally in order to be reliable.
Antonella Sorace, Frank Keller
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Morphophonological gradience in Korean n-insertion
Glossa, 2021 This study addresses the questions of what factors may have a gradient effect in application of a morphophonological process, how they interact, and which of the gradient effects speakers are aware of, by investigating the variation patterns of Korean n ...
Jongho Jun
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Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2011 This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the perspective of grammaticalization.
Haider Hubert
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Can you judge what you don’t hear? Perception as a source of gradient wordlikeness judgements
Glossa, 2023 A key observation about wordlikeness judgements, going back to some of the earliest work on the topic is that they are gradient in the sense that nonce words tend to form a cline of acceptability.
Jimin Kahng, Karthik Durvasula
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Da, pour and to clauses in gradually teleonomic verb constructions. A comparative approach to Serbian, French and English [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017 This paper examines how the Serbian “da” subordinate clause, the French preposition pour and the English particle to, mainly used in clauses expressing purpose, can become linguistic forms expressing temporal and oppositional values.
Ašić Tijana V. +3 more
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Optionality and Gradience in Persian Phonology: An Optimality Treatment [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2014 The distribution of the allophones of /?/in certain contexts involves free variation and gradient preferences. An organized survey was conducted to elicit the judgments of 37 native Persian speakers concerning the well-formedness of /?/allophonic ...
Vahid Sadeghi
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Why we need a gradient approach to word order
Linguistics, 2023 This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable.
Levshina Natalia +14 more
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