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Accessibility, Language Production, and Language Change

Harmon, Zara (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

This dissertation explores the effects of frequency on the learning and use of linguistic constructions. The work examines the influence of frequency on form choice in production and meaning inference in comprehension and ...
Deciding to Look: Revisiting the Link between Lexical Activations and Eye Movements in the Visual World Paradigm in Japanese

Teruya, Hideko (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

All current theories of spoken word recognition (e.g., Allopenna et al., 1998; McClelland & Elman, 1986; Norris, 1994) suggest that any part of a target word triggers activation of candidate words. Visual world paradigm ...
Hierarchical Inference in Sound Change: Words, Sounds, and Frequency of Use

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-08-12)

This paper aims examines the role of hierarchical inference in sound change. Through hierarchical inference, a language learner can distribute credit for a pronunciation between the intended phone and the larger units ...
Phonotactic Generalizations and the Metrical Parse

Olejarczuk, Paul (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

This dissertation explores the relationship between English phonotactics – sequential dependencies between adjacent segments – and the metrical parse, which relies on the division of words into syllables. Most current ...
Teaching Papa to Cha-Cha: How Change Magnitude, Temporal Contiguity, and Task Affect Alternation Learning

Smolek, Amy (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

In this dissertation, we investigate how speakers produce wordforms they may not have heard before. Paradigm Uniformity (PU) is the cross-linguistic bias against stem changes, particularly large changes. We propose the ...
To HAVE and to BE: Function Word Reduction in Child Speech, Child Directed Speech and Inter-adult Speech

Barth, Danielle (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

Function words are known to be shorter than content words. I investigate the function words BE and HAVE (with its content word homonym) and show that more reduction, operationalized as word shortening or contraction, is ...