Abstract
Abstract In contrast to rule systems, analogy assumes massive storage of previously experienced linguistic material. Accordingly, linguistic processing involves access to and comparison with this database of stored instances. Computationally explicit models of analogy allow analogical models to be tested empirically. One such model is shown to be quite effective in predicting the gender of Spanish nouns given their phonological makeup, and in mirroring gender errors made by children. Dialectal differences in diminutive formation is also explored analogically. While rule models postulate differing underlying structures and constraint ranking, analogy accounts for the dialectal variants as due to differences in the diminutives that are stored in a speaker's mental lexicon. Morphology is the result of connections made between words that share semantic and phonological traits.
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