Complex Segment Learner

Complex Segment Learner

Standard Turkish (Turkic)

Turkish is described in the paper along with Hebrew, as one of the relatively straightforward cases from the point of view of phonotactic arguments for complex segments. There is only one thing to add here: etymologically, the voiced [dʒ] is foreign in Turkish. Grammars often mention that this sound occurs in loans from Arabic, Persian, and European languages--as well as a few native ideophones. It is likely that native speakers are not aware of the sound being etymologically foreign, and it is sufficiently well-established that our learner identifies it on the first iteration.

Simulation data at a glance

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Simulation nameInitial state Learning DataInitial state features
Tell LearningData.txt Features.txt
Nouns LearningData.txt Features.txt

Simulation details for Turkish tell

Input:

This includes all the words from TELL paradigms. We used the source's IPA transcriptions.

LearningData.txt | Features.txt

Summary of iterations:

IterationLearning Data producedFeatures producedInseparabilityNew Segments addedSegments removed
1 LearningData.txt Features.txt [download] [view] tʃ, dʒ None
2 No new learning data No new features [download] [view] None None

Summary of inventory changes

StageConsonant set
Inputp b t d c ɟ k ɡ f v s z ʃ ʒ h m n ɲ ʎ l r j
Outputp b t d c ɟ k ɡ f v s z ʃ ʒ h m n ɲ ʎ l r j tʃ dʒ

Simulation Plots

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Simulation details for Turkish nouns

Input:

This subset of nouns was extracted from Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon. We used the source's IPA transcriptions. Hat tip to Michael Becker for sharing the data with us.

LearningData.txt | Features.txt

Summary of iterations:

IterationLearning Data producedFeatures producedInseparabilityNew Segments addedSegments removed
1 LearningData.txt Features.txt [download] [view] tʃ, dʒ ɲ
2 No new learning data No new features [download] [view] None None

Summary of inventory changes

StageConsonant set
Inputp b t d c ɟ k ɡ f v s z ʃ ʒ h m n ɲ ʎ l r j
Outputp b t d c ɟ k ɡ f v s z ʃ ʒ h m n ʎ l r j tʃ dʒ

Simulation Plots

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