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  • LAN volume 80 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 1 / March 2004
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. b1-b8
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  • The Surfeit of the Stimulus: Analytic Biases Filter Lexical Statistics in Turkish Laryngeal Alternations

  • Michael Becker, Nihan Ketrez, Andrew Nevins
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 87 / Issue 1 / March 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 84-125

  • In an experimental task with novel words, we find that some lexical statistical regularities of Turkish phonotactics are productively extended in nonce words, while others are not. In particular, while laryngeal alternation rates in the lexicon can be predicted by the place of articulation of the stem-final stop, by word-length, and by the preceding vowel quality, this laryngeal alternation is only productively conditioned by place of articulation and word-length. Speakers' responses in a novel word task demonstrate that although they are attuned to the place of articulation and size effects, they ignore preceding vowels, even though the lexicon contains this information in abundance. We interpret this finding as evidence that speakers distinguish between phonologically motivated generalizations and accidental generalizations. We propose that universal grammar (UG), a set of analytic biases, acts as a filter on the generalizations that humans can make: UG contains information about possible and impossible interactions between phonological elements. Omnivorous statistical models that do not have information about possible interactions incorrectly reproduce accidental generalizations, thus failing to model speakers' behavior.

  • Exclamative clauses: At the syntax-semantics interface

  • Raffaella Zanuttini, Paul Portner
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 79 / Issue 1 / March 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 39-81

  • A central issue in the theory of clause types is whether force is represented in the syntax. Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we examine this question focusing on a less well-studied clause type, exclamatives. We argue that there is no particular element in syntax responsible for introducing force. Rather, there are two fundamental syntactic components which identify a clause as exclamative, a factive and a wh-operator. These are crucial because they are responsible for two fundamental semantic properties characteristic of exclamatives, namely that they are factive and denote a set of alternative propositions. The force of exclamatives, which we characterize as widening, is derived indirectly, based on the semantic properties.

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