Pons-Moll (2018) – The limits of the free ride in morphophonemic learning. Evidence from Catalan

The limits of the free ride in morphophonemic learning. Evidence from Catalan
Clàudia Pons-Moll
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004357
December 2018
The free ride strategy (McCarthy 2005) is challenged when the input-output mapping(s) derived from morphophonemic dynamic alternations and which are potentially generalized to non-alternating items are not univocal, that is, when the alternating [B]s derive from more than one underlying representation. When restrictiveness (M >> F) leads to a non-consummated free ride and it is no longer exploitable, efficiency (F >> F, etc.) (Bermúdez-Otero 2003, 2006) comes into play to consummate, conclusively, the free ride.

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Reference: lingbuzz/004357
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Published in: Handout of the poster presented at Going Romance 2018, Utrecht University
keywords: underlying representations, morphophonemic learning, free-ride, richness of the base, lexicon optimization, vowel reduction, non-alternating items, phonology