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Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

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Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation. / Hammond, MIchael; Bell, Elise ; Anderson, Skye et al.
In: Glossa, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1, 03.01.2020.

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Hammond, MI, Bell, E, Anderson, S, Webb-Davies, P, Ohala, D, Carnie, A & Brooks, H 2020, 'Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation', Glossa, vol. 5, no. 1, 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1007

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Hammond, MI., Bell, E., Anderson, S., Webb-Davies, P., Ohala, D., Carnie, A., & Brooks, H. (2020). Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation. Glossa, 5(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1007

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Hammond MI, Bell E, Anderson S, Webb-Davies P, Ohala D, Carnie A, Brooks H. 2020. Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation. Glossa. 5(1):Article 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1007

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Hammond, MIchael et al. "Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation". Glossa. 2020. 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1007

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Hammond MI, Bell E, Anderson S, Webb-Davies P, Ohala D, Carnie A et al. Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation. Glossa. 2020 Jan 3;5(1):1. Epub 2020 Jan 3. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1007

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Hammond, MIchael ; Bell, Elise ; Anderson, Skye et al. / Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation. In: Glossa. 2020 ; Vol. 5, No. 1.

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TY - JOUR

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 -