Re: Word class marking in the wild...

2008/11/18 Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> Lars Mathiesen skrev:
>> This article describes how even English seems to allow heuristic
>> discrimination of nouns and verbs (with a low success rate, it seems,
>> but better than random):
>>
>> http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060809_word_sounds.html
>
> So what **is** the difference? one wonders! Intonation?
Something about clustering analysis in a multidimensional parameter space
based on occurrence of phonological features. There's not enough detail in
the linked article to tell what's really going on. The real reference is:

Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2006). Phonological
typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 103, 12203-12208.

Available online here <http://www.pnas.org/content/103/32/12203.full>
(tl;dry).

--
Lars

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