The role of attraction-repulsion dynamics in simulating the emergence of inflectional class systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08465v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:39:26 GMT
• Title: The role of attraction-repulsion dynamics in simulating the emergence of inflectional class systems
• Authors: Erich R. Round, Sacha Beniamine, Louise Esher
• Abstract summary: Ackerman & Malouf present a model in which inflectional systems reduce in disorder through the action of an attraction-only dynamic. Here we emphasise that: (1) Attraction-only models cannot evolve the structured diversity which characterises true inflectional systems, because they inevitably remove all variation; and (2) Models with both attraction and repulsion enable the emergence of systems that are strikingly reminiscent of morphomic structure such as inflection classes.
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• Abstract: Dynamic models of paradigm change can elucidate how the simplest of processes may lead to unexpected outcomes, and thereby can reveal new potential explanations for observed linguistic phenomena. Ackerman & Malouf (2015) present a model in which inflectional systems reduce in disorder through the action of an attraction-only dynamic, in which lexemes only ever grow more similar to one another over time. Here we emphasise that: (1) Attraction-only models cannot evolve the structured diversity which characterises true inflectional systems, because they inevitably remove all variation; and (2) Models with both attraction and repulsion enable the emergence of systems that are strikingly reminiscent of morphomic structure such as inflection classes. Thus, just one small ingredient -- change based on dissimilarity -- separates models that tend inexorably to uniformity, and which therefore are implausible for inflectional morphology, from those which evolve stable, morphome-like structure. These models have the potential to alter how we attempt to account for morphological complexity.

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