Themes from Cutler
The idea that languages prefer one type of affix position over others.
What is the suffixing preference?
Disc: Various types of non-concatenative morphology out there in the world's languages...
One term commonly used for theories that say that they do not have typical 'pieces' in morphology.
What is amorhpous?
Disc: Actually amorphous theories still can have abstract morphemes etc.
What is dual route?
Disc: This is actually pretty complicated when you get into the details.
The process of removing (/ignoring) sound information irrelevant to abstract representations.
What is normalization?
Disc: interesting questions all over. For example, what about situations in which speakers might have different abstract representations (maybe in coronal stop deletion, for example).
A factor that might distinguish the vowel in ham from that in the first syllable of hamster.
What is length (i.e. duration)?
Disc. Are speakers going to use this information?
Progressive vs. regressive effects; positive versus negative expectations...
What are some possibilities to consider?
''junctural phonotactics"
What is a term used for the ways in which phoneme combinations at morpheme boundaries might differ from those that are found inside of morphemes.
Disc: If such a number is useful, does it mean that there are morphemes?
Term often used for approaches in which 'morphology' is treated in terms of relationships between whole words, rather than morphemes etc.
What is paradigmatic?
Disc: Useful to distinguish various senses in which we see the term 'paradigm' used
Term for the fact that not every phoneme ''[has] a specific set of acoustic attributes in all contexts."
What is lack of invariance?
Disc. Why would we posit phonemes then-?
The issue raised by testing people on single words (often citation forms) out of sentential or other context.
What is ecological validity?
Factor responsible for the idea that in processing Spanish, the system “...would seem to have to fight off many more alternative interpretations…” than in English.
What is the size of the phoneme inventory?
Disc: Consequences for inhibition?
Fr(softly) < Fr(soft)
Fr(swiftly) > Fr(swift)
What is something about surface versus stem frequency ('relative frequency') that plays an important role in Hay and Baayen.
The technique that suggests (under some circumstances) that broth is 'in' brother.
What is masked priming?
Disc. Why would this be found only under this particular way of looking at things (in the visual modality)?
Generalizing phono-effects to words that haven't been encountered before.
What is something that we would like to think about for a particular exemplar-based model.
The shifting of categorical perception induced by lexicality (e.g. king vs. *ging).
What is the Ganong Effect.
Disc: What else could we manipulate other than lexicality? Word/non-word? Variety? Etc.
Perceptual learning.
What is learning 'special' pronunciations (for a speaker...beyond?) that can be transferred onto novel words.
The definition of the 'classic' or 'traditional' morpheme (from Hockett).
What is a constant form, a constant meaning, and an arbitrary link between the two.
The definition of relative entropy.
Disc: Why would this be tracked? What counts as 'same category'? What kinds of information are rolled up in this measure?
Suppose people pronounce thyme and time differently.
Two part Question:
1. All roads lead to this language.
2. All other roads lead to this Turkic language.
1. What is Berber?
2. What is Uyghur?
Interactionist versus Autonomous models.
What are models that allow 'top down' effects on perception, versus those that do not (i.e. which have 'strict information flow')?
dejuvenate versus depertoire
What is an argument that is supposed to support decomposition?
Disc: How exactly? What do we think about words like this (what part of the vocab. are the from, etc.)
High surface frequency -> harder to decompose.
What is a claim that occurs in the literature?
Disc. Why would this be the case-- expectations about modality etc.?
Correlation/Causation
Does the fact that part of the cognitive apparatus connected to language stores episodic properties mean that these properties play a crucial role in lexical representation etc.?
"Why don't you just some out and say that you really don't like this paper?"
Comment from Labov when I was teaching the Hay and Baayen paper years ago. It's not that I don't 'like' it....