Mirković Jelena, MacDonald Maryellen C, Seidenberg Mark S
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Lang Cogn Process. 2005;20(1-2):139-167. doi: 10.1080/01690960444000205.
Although inflectional morphology has been the focus of considerable debate in recent years, most research has focused on English, which has a much simpler inflectional system than in many other languages. We have been studying Serbian, which has a complex inflectional system that encodes gender, number, and case. The present study investigated the representation of gender. In standard theories of language production, gender is treated as an abstract syntactic feature segregated from semantic and phonological factors. However, we describe corpus analyses and computational models which indicate that gender is correlated with semantic and phonological information, consistent with other cross-linguistic studies. The research supports the idea that gender representations emerge in the course of learning to map from an intended message to a phonological representation. Implications for models of speech production are discussed.
尽管近年来屈折形态学一直是大量争论的焦点，但大多数研究都集中在英语上，英语的屈折系统比许多其他语言的屈折系统要简单得多。我们一直在研究塞尔维亚语，它有一个复杂的屈折系统，对性、数和格进行编码。本研究调查了性的表征。在标准的语言生成理论中，性被视为一个与语义和音系因素分离的抽象句法特征。然而，我们描述了语料库分析和计算模型，这些分析和模型表明性与语义和音系信息相关，这与其他跨语言研究一致。该研究支持这样一种观点，即性的表征是在学习从预期信息映射到音系表征的过程中出现的。文中还讨论了对言语生成模型的启示。
