Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation
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T1 - Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation
AU - Hammond, MIchael
AU - Bell, Elise
AU - Anderson, Skye
AU - Webb-Davies, Peredur
AU - Ohala, Diane
AU - Carnie, Andrew
AU - Brooks, Heddwen
PY - 2020/1/3
Y1 - 2020/1/3
N2 - In this paper we investigate category-specific effects through the lens of Welsh mutation. Smith (2011) and Moreton et al. (2017) show that English distinguishes nouns and proper nouns in an experimental blending task. Here we show that Welsh distinguishes nouns, verbs, personal names, and place names in the mutation system. We demonstrate these effects experimentally in a translation task designed to elicit mutation intuitions and in several corpus studies. In addition, we show that these effects correlate with lexical frequency. Deeper statistical analysis and a review of the English data suggests that frequency is a more explanatory factor than part of speech in both languages. We therefore argue that these category-specific effects can be reduced to lexical frequency effects.
AB - In this paper we investigate category-specific effects through the lens of Welsh mutation. Smith (2011) and Moreton et al. (2017) show that English distinguishes nouns and proper nouns in an experimental blending task. Here we show that Welsh distinguishes nouns, verbs, personal names, and place names in the mutation system. We demonstrate these effects experimentally in a translation task designed to elicit mutation intuitions and in several corpus studies. In addition, we show that these effects correlate with lexical frequency. Deeper statistical analysis and a review of the English data suggests that frequency is a more explanatory factor than part of speech in both languages. We therefore argue that these category-specific effects can be reduced to lexical frequency effects.
KW - mutation
KW - Welsh
KW - Celtic
KW - Frequency
KW - part-of-speech
KW - morphology
U2 - 10.5334/gjgl.1007
DO - 10.5334/gjgl.1007
M3 - Article
VL - 5
JO - Glossa
JF - Glossa
SN - 2397-1835
IS - 1
M1 - 1
ER -