Article Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "pk": 49286,
    "title": "Sub-phonemic featural dimensions mediate consonantal co-occurrence biases in a cross-linguistically consistent manner",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Studies of segmental co-occurrence constraints have consistently\nproduced evidence consistent with a cross-linguistic\nanti-similarity bias for consonants (e.g. Frisch et al. (2004),\nPozdniakov & Segerer (2007), Walter (2010), Doucette et al.\n(2024)). The current study tests whether, in spite of this universal\nsimilarity avoidance bias, there are cross-linguistically\nconsistent featural harmony biases the world's lexicons. In\nparticular, we test for the presence of a nasal consonant harmony\nbias, given the fact that categorical nasal consonant harmony\nis attested in multiple language families and that nasal\nharmony is phonetically-motivated. A Bayesian negative binomial\nmodel of 91 typologically diverse languages' type frequencies\nfor two-consonant words shows evidence of a weak\nbut reliable cross-linguistic bias in favor of nasal harmony,\nas well as a comparable bias in favor of voicing harmony.\nThe findings also show patterns consistent with a similarityavoidance\nbias, most notably a strong cross-linguistic bias\nagainst coronal harmony. Taken together, these findings support\nthe notion that similarity-based co-occurrence constraints\nmay be feature dependent in cross-linguistically consistent\nways, and more generally that featural dimensions are relevant\nfor understanding the role of segmental redundancy in lexicons.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Phonology; Bayesian modeling; Corpus studies"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wd6d5z1",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Bruno",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ferenc Segedin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Brown University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T23:30:00+05:30",
    "render_galley": null,
    "galleys": [
        {
            "label": "PDF",
            "type": "pdf",
            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49286/galley/37247/download/"
        }
    ]
}