Tamar Johnson (Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh)<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday 5 February Morphological paradigms differ widely across languages: some feature relatively few contrasts, and others, dozens. A key question in understanding the broad variation exhibited by morphological paradigms cross-linguistically, is what makes them learnable. Recent work on morphological complexity has argued that certain features of even very large paradigms make them easy to learn and use. Specifically, Ackerman & Malouf, 2013 propose an information-theoretic measure, i-complexity, which captures the extent to which forms in one part of a paradigm predict each other, and show that languages which differ widely in surface complexity exhibit similar i-complexity; in other words, morphological paradigms with many contrasts reduce the learnability challenge for learners by having predictive relationships between inflections. This study presents a set of artificial language learning experiments testing whether i-complexity in fact predicts learnability of paradigms inflecting for noun class and number. Results reveal only weak evidence that low i-complexity paradigms are easier to learn. We suggest that alternative measures of complexity likely have a much larger impact on learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning Tamar Johnson (Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh) Tuesday 5 February 11:30am -12:30pm G.32, 7 George Square Morphological paradigms differ widely across languages: some feature relatively few contrasts, and others, dozens. A key question in understanding the broad variation exhibited by morphological paradigms cross-linguistically, is … Continue reading 5 February: Tamar Johnson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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