Yidiny (Pama-Nyungan)
Yidiɲ has figured prominently in discussions of suppletive allomorphy, metrical structure, and reduplication. One of the typologically unusual features of this language is that it supposedly reduplicates by copying syllabification: mula-mulari 'initiated men' gindal-gindalba 'lizards' But homorganic nasal-stop clusters are not broken up in copying: maɟi-maɟinda-n 'keep walking up' In his (1977) grammar of Yidiɲ, Dixon says, "a homorganic cluster [mb] is in some cases felt to be functioning as a single phonological unit", but he does not posit prenasalized stops in his inventory for the language. In this simulation, his lexicon of about a 1000 stems and affixes is analyzed, and Dixon's conjecture is supported: NC clusters are unified into prenasalized stops. Somewhat oddly, so are [rg] clusters; possibly further some morphological segmentation would clarify their status. This simulation was conducted in 2025 for a project on Yidiɲ reduplication.
Simulation data at a glance
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| Simulation name | Initial state Learning Data | Initial state features |
|---|---|---|
| only version | LearningData.txt | Features.txt |
Simulation details for Yidiny
| Iteration | Learning Data produced | Features produced | Inseparability | New Segments added | Segments removed |
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| 1 | LearningData.txt | Features.txt | [download] [view] | mb, nd, ŋɡ, ɲɟ | None |
| 2 | LearningData.txt | Features.txt | [download] [view] | rɡ | None |
| 3 | No new learning data | No new features | [download] [view] | None | None |
