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a PF interface phenomenon as proposed elsewhere for linearization constraints generally(Nunes 2004, Boeckx 2008).
Reducing linguistic variation to Third Factor mechanismsJordi Fortuny (UB, CLT-UAB, Complex Systems Lab-UPF) & Adriana Fasanella (CLT-UAB)The objective of our study is to develop a model of morphophonological analysis that enablesthe learner to infer high-order properties of the target language. Our first step is to express in aparametric way part of the mechanism of data analysis used by the Language AcquisitionDevice (LAD) in order to attain a morphological analysis of its Primary Linguistic Data (PLD).The second step is to explore how these analyses can be used by the learner to deduce classicalpatterns of morphosyntactic variation. With this approach we show a path to reduce the problemof what is the permissible format of language variation to the Third Factor mechanisms(Chomsky 2005) responsible for language acquisition.The starting intuition is that all languages share the same class of grammatical features butdiffer as to how they realize them morphophonologically (Cinque 1999). We consider theminimal morphological category, which we will call morph or head, as a primitive of theproposed procedure, which can be detected on the PLD:Definition. A linguistic form α, viewed as a string of phonemes, is a morph or head iff it ismeaningful and does not contain any meaningful non-empty proper substring.The properties to be set by the mechanism of data analysis under consideration are thefollowing:1) A head is bound if it is phonologically dependent of other heads and unbound otherwise.2) A head is synthetic if it conveys more than one morpheme and non-synthetic if it conveysonly one morpheme.Property 1) is fixed by the learner by inspecting the string of heads. Whether a head is bound ornot is arguably determined on the basis of phonological cues in the acoustic signal, such aspauses. Language-specific cues may also play a role, such as word level stress patterns,phonotactic regularities and allophonic variation. Property 2) is fixed by inspecting how a headis related to grammatical categories provided by Universal Grammar (UG), henceforthmorphemes. More precisely, the mechanism should inspect how a head is related to morphemes,whether it conveys a sole morpheme or more. Here not only mechanisms of speechsegmentation are involved, but the set of grammatical categories provided by UG and a theoryof paradigmatic relations (Pinker 1984) must also be taken into consideration.We call the morphophonological analysis mechanism we want to explore Chunking Procedure,and we understood it as follows:3) Chunking Procedure. Given a head H, the learner determines whether H is phonologicallydependent of other heads ([+bound]) or not ([-bound]); and whether H conveys only onemorpheme ([-synthetic]) or more ([+synthetic]).Once this morphological analysis is attained, we investigate the existence of bootstrappingmechanisms that use its results to specify higher order syntactic properties of the targetlanguage, namely those properties that traditional parameters range over. We capitalize on theobservation that there exist general correlations between abstract syntactic patterns and themorphophonological analysis obtained by the Chunking Procedure. We shall directly formulatethese correlations as bootstrapping mechanisms:4) Bootstrapping mechanisms tiggered by the Chunking Procedure(a) Once the learner has determined that there is a [+bound] head instantiating a feature F,then he can infer that the maximal projection instantiating F in the target language has afree distribution, and can be omitted.
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INTRODUCTIONWelcome to the 70 th GL
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Welcome to GLOW 36, Lund!The 36th G
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REIMBURSEMENT AND WAIVERSThe regist
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STATISTICS BY COUNTRYCountry Author
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14:00-15:00 Adam Albright (MIT) and
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GLOW 36 WORKSHOP PROGRAM IV:Acquisi
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The impossible chaos: When the mind
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17. Friederici, A. D., Trends Cogn.
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Second, tests replicated from Bruen
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Motivating head movement: The case
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Limits on Noun-suppletionBeata Mosk
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Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightwa
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Selectivity in L3 transfer: effects
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Anaphoric dependencies in real time
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