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Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition
EDITED BY
JAMES P. BLEVINS AND JULIETTE BLEVINS
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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
1. Introduction:Analogy ingrammar 1
JamesP.BlevinsandJulietteBlevins
Part I. Typology and Complexity
2. Principalpartsanddegreesofparadigmatictransparency 13
RaphaelFinkelandGregoryStump
3. Partsandwholes:Implicativepatternsininflectionalparadigms 54
FarrellAckerman,JamesP.Blevins,andRobertMalouf
4. ResolvingpatternconXict:Variationandselectionin 83
phonologyandmorphology
AndrewWedel
Part II. Learning
5. Therelationbetweenlinguisticanalogiesandlexicalcategories 101
LouAnnGerken,RachelWilson,RebeccaGo´mez,andErikaNurmsoo
6. Theroleofanalogy forcompoundwords 118
AndreaKrott
7. Morphologicalanalogy:Onlyabeginning 137
JohnGoldsmith
Part III. Modeling Analogy
8. ExpandingAnalogicalModelingintoageneraltheoryof
languageprediction 164
RoyalSkousen
9. Modelinganalogyasprobabilisticgrammar 185
AdamAlbright
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10. Wordsandparadigmsbitbybit:Aninformation-theoretic
approachtotheprocessingofinXectionandderivation 214
PetarMilin,VictorKuperman,AleksandarKosti´c,and
R.HaraldBaayen
References 253
Index 273
Notes on Contributors
Farrell Ackerman works on a range of syntactic and morphological issues
viewed from the perspective of lexicalism and construction-theoretic ap-
proaches, with a focus on Uralic languages. He has worked on complex
predicates (Ackerman and Webelhuth, A Theory of Predicates, 1998), argu-
ment-encodingandmappingtheories(AckermanandMoore,Proto-properties
andgrammaticalencoding,2001),andthetypologyofrelativeclauses(Acker-
man, Nikolaeva, and Malouf, Descriptive Typology and Grammatical Theory,
forthcoming). Over the past few years he has been exploring word-based
implicativemodelsofmorphology.HeisProfessorofLinguisticsandDirector
of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Development at the
UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego.
AdamAlbrightreceivedhisBAinlinguisticsfromCornellUniversityin1996
and his Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 2002. He was a Faculty Fellow at
UCSantaCruzfrom2002–4,andsincethenhasbeenanAssistantProfessorat
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include
phonology, morphology, and learnability, with an emphasis on using com-
putational modeling and experimental techniques to investigate issues in
phonologicalandmorphologicaltheory.
Harald Baayen is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alberta,
Edmonton. His research interests include lexical statistics in literary and
linguisticcorpus-basedcomputing,generallinguistics,morphologicaltheory,
and the psycholinguistics of morphological processing. He has published
in, e.g., Language, Linguistics, Folia Linguistica, Computational Linguistics,
YearbookofMorphology,ComputersandtheHumanities,LiteraryandLinguis-
tic Computing, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Journal of Memory
and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Language and Cognitive
Processes,Cognition,BrainandLanguage,andthePhilosophicalTransactionsof
theRoyalSociety(SeriesA:Mathematical,PhysicalandEngineeringSciences)
and has a new book, Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to
StatisticsusingR(CambridgeUniversityPress,2008).
James P. Blevins is Assistant Directorof Research atthe Research Centre for
EnglishandAppliedLinguisticsintheUniversityofCambridge.Hereceived
his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in
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1990,andhastaughtattheUniversityofWesternAustralia,theUniversityof
Texas, the University of Alberta, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Hisresearchdealsmainlywiththedescriptionandanalysisofmorphological
systemsandsyntacticconstructions,withaparticularemphasisonparadigm
structureanddiscontinuousdependencies.ArealinterestsincludeGermanic,
Balto-Finnic,Balto-Slavic,andKartvelian.
Juliette Blevins is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Linguistics, Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. She received her
doctorate in linguistics from MIT in 1985, and then joined the Department
ofLinguisticsattheUniversityofTexasatAustin.Herresearchinterestsrange
from historical, descriptive, and typological studies, to theoretical analysis
with a synthesis in her recent book Evolutionary Phonology (Cambridge
University Press). Other interests include Oceanic languages, Australian
Aboriginallanguages,andNativeAmericanlanguages.
RaphaelFinkelreceivedaPh.D.fromStanfordUniversityin1976inrobotics
and has been a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky
in Lexington since 1987. His research involves operating system administra-
tion,computationalmorphology,reliabledatabackup,andweb-basedorganic
chemistry homework. He was associated with the Wrst work on quad trees,
k-d trees, quotient networks, and the Roscoe/Arachne, Charlotte, and Unify
operating systems. He helped develop DIB, has published over eighty
articles, and has written two textbooks: An Operating Systems Vade Mecum
(Prentice-Hall,1988),andAdvancedProgrammingLanguageDesign(Benjamin-
Cummings, 1996). He is also a co-authorof The Hacker’s Dictionary (Harper
andRow,1983).
LouAnnGerkenreceivedherPh.D.inexperimentalpsychologyfromColum-
biaUniversityin1987.SheiscurrentlyProfessorofPsychologyandLinguistics
and Directorof Cognitive Science atthe Universityof Arizona. The focus of
her research is behavioral indicators of the computational mechanism by
which human infants and young children learn the structure of their native
language.Inaddition,sheworksonissuesofsocialjusticeintheacademy.
JohnGoldsmithisaprofessorinthedepartmentsofLinguisticsandComputer
Science at the University of Chicago. His research interests include phono-
logicaltheory,especiallyautosegmentalphonologyandharmonicphonology,
implementationsoflinguistictheoryusingcurrenttoolsofmachinelearning,
and the history of linguistics and the other mind sciences. His work on
automatic grammar induction has focused on the problems of inferring
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morphologicalstructurefromrawdata,andisavailableat<http://linguistica.
uchicago.edu/>.
Rebecca Go´mez obtained her Ph.D. in experimental psychology at New
Mexico State University in 1995. She completed a postdoctoral position at
the University of Arizona before taking her Wrst faculty position at Johns
HopkinsUniversityin1999.ShereturnedtotheUniversityofArizonain2001
where she is presently an Associate Professor. She is known for her work on
learningincognitivedevelopmentandchildlanguageacquisition.
Andrea Krott is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of
Birmingham.SheholdsanM.A.fromtheUniversityofTrier,Germany,anda
Ph.D.fromtheRadboudUniversityNijmegen,TheNetherlands.Herresearch
focusesontheprocessingandacquisitionofwordmorphology.Inparticular,
sheinvestigatestheroleofanalogy intheproduction andcomprehensionof
noun-noun compound words in adult speakers across diVerent languages
and its role in preschool children’s understanding of compound words. Her
interests also include electrophysiological measures of language processing
inadults.
VictorKupermanisaPh.D.candidateatRadboudUniversityNijmegenanda
researcherattheMaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguisticsinNijmegen.He
is engaged in information-theoretical research of production and compre-
hension of morphologically complex words. His interests include morpho-
logicalandsentenceprocessinginvisualandauditorydomains;interactionof
phonologicalandorthographicencodingsinsilentreading;sexdiVerencesin
the uptake and processing of visual information, as revealed in eye move-
ments;andstatisticalmethodsinlanguageresearch.
Robert Malouf received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University
in 1998. He has held positions at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and
the University of Groningen, and is currently an assistant professor in the
computational linguistics program of the Department of Linguistics and
Asian/Middle Eastern Languages at San Diego State University. His research
focuses on constructional approaches to morphology and syntax, statistical
naturallanguageprocessing,andtheapplicationoftext-miningtechniquesto
researchintheoreticallinguistics.
Petar Milin is an assistant professor of research methodology and cognitive
psychologyattheDepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofNoviSad,andholds
aresearchpositionattheLaboratoryforExperimentalPsychology,University
of Belgrade. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of
