Paradigm Uniformity and Analogy: The Capitalistic versus Militaristic Debate
- Autores: David Eddington
- Localización: IJES: international journal of English studies, ISSN 1578-7044, ISSN-e 1989-6131, Vol. 6, Nº. 2, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cognitive phonology), págs. 1-18
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In American English, /t/ in capitalistic is generally flapped while in militaristic it is not due to the influence of capi[r]al and mili[th]ary . This is caIled Paradigm Unifonnity or PU (Steriade, 2000). Riehl (2003) presents evidence to refute PU which when reanalyzecl supports PU. PU is thought to work in tanclem with a rule of allophonic distribution, the nature of which is debated. An approach is suggested that eliminates the need for the rule versus PU dichotomy; allophonic clistribution is carried out by analogy to stored items in the mental lexicon. Therefore, the influence of the pronunciation of capital on capitalistic is cletennined in the same way as the pronunciation of /t/ in monomorphemic words such as Mediterranean is. A munber of analogical computer simulations provide evidence to support this notion.
