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Publication Date: 2020
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There Is No Phonology without Abstract Categories: A Commentary on Ambridge (2020)
First Language, v40 n5-6 p626-630 Oct-Dec 2020
Ambridge's proposal cannot account for the most basic observations about phonological patterns in human languages. Outside of the earliest stages of phonological production by toddlers, the phonological systems of speakers/learners exhibit internal behaviours that point to the representation and processing of inter-related units ranging in size from sub-segmental (featural) and segmental to larger prosodic units ranging from the syllable all the way to the phonological utterance. Only theories which embrace these units can make proper predictions about phonological behaviours. [For Ben Ambridge's "Against Stored Abstractions: A Radical Exemplar Model of Language Acquisition," see EJ1269951.]
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Patterns, Toddlers, Language Processing, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Speech Communication, Prediction, Models, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Portuguese, Classification, Language Usage, Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics
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