Talks by Joanna Zaleska
In the present paper we report on a cross-linguistic artificial grammar learning study, whose aim... more In the present paper we report on a cross-linguistic artificial grammar learning study, whose aim was to probe Carpenter’s (2010) observation that it it easier to learn an artificial language in which stress is attracted to low vowels than one where stress occurs on high vowels. The results of our reserch do not
confirm Carpenter’s findings and suggest that artificial language experiments can be affected by the native language of the participants even when it does not contain the relevant structures.
This study investigates the underlying representation of nasal vowels in Polish using a series of... more This study investigates the underlying representation of nasal vowels in Polish using a series of language game experiments. Our contribution is threefold. First, we show that the nasal portion of those vowels cannot be represented underlyingly as a nasal consonant. Second, we demonstrate that the ban on word-initial nasal vowels is an accidental gap. Finally, on a more general level, we show that language games can be an effective tool for revealing underlying phonological structures when the linguistic data are not conclusive.
The aim of this paper is to present an account of European Portuguese syllable structure from two... more The aim of this paper is to present an account of European Portuguese syllable structure from two perspectives: rule-based and constraint based. It is argued that an analysis couched in Optimality Theory is superior to the derivational alternative as it provides a formal means to capture the unity behind three disparate processes that conspire to repair illicit syllables.
Posters by Joanna Zaleska
In the present study, we report on an artificial language learning experiment whose aim is to ver... more In the present study, we report on an artificial language learning experiment whose aim is to verify a recent claim put forward by Czaplicki (2013: 32) that ‘phonological naturalness does not play a role in linguistic computation’ and thus palatalization before a front vowel should be as likely as depalatalization. Our results provide provisory evidence that Czaplicki’s claim might be partially wrong. Our study shows
that there is a small but statistically significant advantage for learning palatalization over depalatalization for adult Hungarian speakers.
This study investigates the underlying representation of nasal vowels in Polish using a series of... more This study investigates the underlying representation of nasal vowels in Polish using a series of language game experiments. We show that (a) the lack of word-initial nasal vowels is an accidental gap, (b) the nasal portion of those vowels cannot be represented underlyingly as a nasal consonant, and (c) Polish
nasal vowels may not be representationally equivalent to nasal vowels in other Indo-European languages, and indeed may vary in their representation across speakers.
MA Thesis by Joanna Zaleska
Teaching Documents by Joanna Zaleska
Slides I prepared for the LATEX for Linguists workshop at the DGfS 2015 conference.
Handout I prepared for the LATEX for Linguists workshop at the DGfS 2015 conference.
Papers by Joanna Zaleska
In this paper, we discuss the relationship that holds between feeding and bleeding in the interac... more In this paper, we discuss the relationship that holds between feeding and bleeding in the interaction of rules. Whereas it is presently well understood how to change, for example, a feeding relation into one of counterfeeding (i.e. by reversing the order of application), the transformation from feeding to bleeding is still unclear. We show that there is a systematic way to go from feeding to bleeding and vice versa by means of ‘flipping’ rules (reversing the input and output). The ensuing discussion uncovers more about the nature of rules in general and opens up a wealth of further analytical possibilities.
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Talks by Joanna Zaleska
confirm Carpenter’s findings and suggest that artificial language experiments can be affected by the native language of the participants even when it does not contain the relevant structures.
Posters by Joanna Zaleska
that there is a small but statistically significant advantage for learning palatalization over depalatalization for adult Hungarian speakers.
nasal vowels may not be representationally equivalent to nasal vowels in other Indo-European languages, and indeed may vary in their representation across speakers.
MA Thesis by Joanna Zaleska
Teaching Documents by Joanna Zaleska
Papers by Joanna Zaleska
confirm Carpenter’s findings and suggest that artificial language experiments can be affected by the native language of the participants even when it does not contain the relevant structures.
that there is a small but statistically significant advantage for learning palatalization over depalatalization for adult Hungarian speakers.
nasal vowels may not be representationally equivalent to nasal vowels in other Indo-European languages, and indeed may vary in their representation across speakers.