Exploring oppositions in morphology

In this paper, we define a group structure over strings and note that by applying this computation to words, we obtain major steps towards a method for identifying allomorphy and learning morphophonemics. First order differences among a set of words forming a paradigm identify morphs, while second order differences identify allomorphy. When this allomorphy appears at morpheme boundary, this can in a wide range of cases be identified as morphophonology.

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Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
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2025-06-27
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https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2025.8345
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Categorization, perception, and language
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Exploring oppositions in morphology

Marina Ermolaeva, John Goldsmith
Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
Categorization, perception, and language
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Exploring oppositions in morphology

Marina Ermolaeva, John Goldsmith
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Abstract

In this paper, we define a group structure over strings and note that by applying this computation to words, we obtain major steps towards a method for identifying allomorphy and learning morphophonemics. First order differences among a set of words forming a paradigm identify morphs, while second order differences identify allomorphy. When this allomorphy appears at morpheme boundary, this can in a wide range of cases be identified as morphophonology.

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