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Markedness in the Acquisition of Kiswahili Phonology: An Optimality Theory Perspective
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2022 Child language acquisition process is, among other factors, determined by the degree of linguistic markedness of the structures under acquisition. In the acquisition of phonology, phonological markedness has been posited to affect both the rate and ...
Henry Simiyu Nandelenga
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What differentiates Serbo-Croatian verbal theme vowels: content or markedness?
Glossa, 2022 We examine two hypotheses regarding the role of theme vowels (ThVs) in Serbo- Croatian (SC): (i) that the various ThVs attested in SC are markedness-based realizations of the same syntactic feature specification, and (ii) that different ThVs carry ...
Boban Arsenijevic
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Theoretical Linguistics, 2003 Abstract The markedness constraints of classic Optimality Theory assign violation-marks to output candidates without reference to the input or to other candidates. This article explores an alternative conception of markedness: markedness constraints compare the candidate under evaluation with another candidate, the most faithful one ...
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Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2009 With the Selective Fossilization Hypothesis (SFH), Han (2009) cites the synergy of first language (L1) markedness and second language (L2) input robustness as a determinant of selective fossilization and, in doing so, returns the construct of markedness ...
Rosette Bambino Finneran
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Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 With the Selective Fossilization Hypothesis (SFH), Han (2009) cites the synergy of first language (L1) markedness and second language (L2) input robustness as a determinant of selective fossilization and, in doing so, returns the construct of markedness ...
Rosette Bambino Finneran
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Homonymy and the Cognitive Operator of Norm in German
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2020 The works of many linguists view homonymy as a negative phenomenon, which interferes with communication, complicates the perception of information, and decreases the effectiveness of the language as a means of communication.
Svitlana Kiyko , Yuriy Kiyko
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Languages, 2021 Markedness has a long tradition in linguistics as a way to describe linguistic asymmetries. In this paper, I investigate an argument about the necessity of markedness as a tool for capturing the structural distribution of inflectional affixes and ...
Jeff Parker
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On the correlation between discourse frequency and structural complexity in markedness theory
Discours, 2009 Markedness is commonly regarded as one of the fundamental organizing principles of human language. However, the reasons for the existence of markedness phenomena continue to be controversial, if not to say obscure.
Regina Pustet
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Revision and classification of past participles with the typological prototype approach [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 INTRODUCTION In this research, we have had an exact categorization for different kinds of derivational and derivational-compound past participles in the frame of typological prototypes which is a universal approach towards the parts of speech.
Mitra Hoseingholian +1 more
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A markedness analysis of initial consonant clusters in Aphasic Phonological Impairment: A case study
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1978 The purpose of this study was to assess both the theoretical and clinical value of markedness theory in phonological impairment in aphasia. A markedness analysis was carried out on initial consonant clusters in a single aphasic adult, at two points ...
Lesley Wolk
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