Allomorphic responses in Serbian pseudo-nouns as a result of analogical learning

Milin, Petar and Keuleers, Emmanuel and Đurđević, Dušica Filipović (2011) Allomorphic responses in Serbian pseudo-nouns as a result of analogical learning. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 58 (1-2). pp. 65-84. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

Allomorphy is a phenomenon that occurs in many languages. Several psycholinguistic studies have shown that allomorphy, if present, co-determines cognitive processing. In the present paper we discuss allomorphic variations of Serbian instrumental singular form of pseudo-nouns as emerging from analogical learning. We compare the predictions derived from memory-based language processing models with results from a previous experimental study with adult Serbian native speakers. Results confirm that the production of suffix allomorphs in Serbian instrumental singular masculine nouns can be accounted for by memory-based learning and simple analogical inferences. The present findings are in line with a growing body of research showing that memory-based learning models make relevant predictions about the cognitive processes involved in various linguistic phenomena.

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