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Root‐Affix Asymmetries

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Suzanne Urbanczyk

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Companion to Phonology · 2011
Typeother
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Victoria
KeywordsAffixMorphemeSemitic languagesLinguisticsRoot (linguistics)InflectionArabicMathematicsPhilosophy

Abstract

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When taking stock of the phonological patterns found in the languages of the world, some patterns can be allocated to roots, some to affixes, and even more to when roots combine with affixes. As Jakobson (1965: 29) observed, “… roots as lexical and affixes as inflectional morphemes …” show asymmetric patterning, such that affixes “… illustrate a selected use of phonemes and their combinations.” For example, in Semitic languages pharyngeal consonants (chapter25:pharyngeals) are found in roots, but not in affixes (McCarthy and Prince 1995), and in many languages ejectives are only found in roots (Rose and Walker 2004; Bybee 2005). Examples from Classical Arabic (Semitic; McCarthy 2005) and Lushootseed (Salish; Bateset al. 1994) illustrate these patterns in (1) below.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.062
Threshold uncertainty score0.208

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.006
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0620.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2011
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