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Experiment 2: Sonority Effects

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Substantive Bias and Natural Classes

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The primary goal of this chapter is to better test the interactive approach—sonority hierarchy type and sonority natural classes and the approach of pure sonority natural classes proposed in Chap. 4 (see Sect. 4.14).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    I coded t(S) → k(S) as 1, simply because /t/ and /s/ share the coronal place of articulation.

  2. 2.

    I coded k(W) → t(W) as 1, simply because /k/ and /w/ share the dorsal place of articulation.

  3. 3.

    Place of articulation is seldom used as a hierarchy related to sonority. An exception is van der Hulst (1994a, b), who argues that coronal is a true consonant (structure in oral cavity), dorsal is vowel-like because dorsal consonants and vowels share [dorsal] and labial lies in between (structure outside of oral cavity). This research is concerned about place natural classes, so I will not discuss a place hierarchy here.

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    I also compared Patterns 5 and 6, Patterns 1 and 7, and Patterns 2 and 8, no main effect of “Direction” is found. This further shows that place of articulation of /k/ and /t/ did not affect the learning.

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Lin, YL. (2019). Experiment 2: Sonority Effects. In: Substantive Bias and Natural Classes. Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, vol 8. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3534-1_5

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