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Substantive Bias and Natural Classes

An Empirical Approach

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Authors:
  1. Yu-Leng Lin

    1. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

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  • Provides linguists with guidelines on how to improve their design of artificial grammar learning
  • Contributes to a better understanding of phonological patterning in Chinese linguistics
  • Takes into account individual learning strategies in addition to pooled data

Part of the book series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics (FiCL, volume 8)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Yu-Leng Lin
    Pages 1-5

  3. An Introduction to Vowel-Consonant Nasal Harmony

    • Yu-Leng Lin
    Pages 7-11

  4. Introduction to Artificial Goals and Challenges

    • Yu-Leng Lin
    Pages 13-41

  5. Experiment 1

    • Yu-Leng Lin
    Pages 43-85

  6. Experiment 2: Sonority Effects

    • Yu-Leng Lin
    Pages 87-109

  7. Conclusions

    • Yu-Leng Lin
    Pages 111-118

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 119-122
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About this book

This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm. It is aimed at postgraduate students and linguists in general whose research interests lie in phonology, phonetics, and/or  psycholinguistics. It is useful for linguists who are struggling to figure out how to effectively design an artificial phonological grammar and those who have not designed experiments on their own but would like to do so as an additional means to testing linguistic theories. This book is also a valuable resource for anyone building crosslinguistic artificial grammar paradigm resources.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yu-Leng Lin

About the author

​Yu-Leng Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Feng Chia University. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto in 2016. Before joining the Feng Chia University, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, laboratory phonology, and sociophonetics. Her publications include a journal paper, a book chapter and conference proceedings, and she has presented her work – ranging from learning bias, speech perception and production, tonal studies, and comparative studies among Mandarin, Taiwan Southern Min, Cantonese, and English – at several international conferences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Substantive Bias and Natural Classes

  • Book Subtitle: An Empirical Approach

  • Authors: Yu-Leng Lin

  • Series Title: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3534-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3533-4Published: 21 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3534-1Published: 10 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5308

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5316

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 122

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Phonology and Phonetics, Theoretical Linguistics

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