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The PCFP and the Zipfian frequency distribution: The Median Threshold Hypothesis and French conjugation

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The effects of frequency on memory in general have long been documented. Furthermore, Ambridge et al. (2015) has demonstrated that token frequency has an effect on linguistic behaviour at large. In morphology, researchers (e.g. Bybee, 1995; Corbett et al., 2001; Herce, 2016) have studied its links with inflectional irregularities. Recently, Blevins et al. (2017) have outlined the implications of this Zipfian frequency distribution (Zipf, 1932) on the mod- eling of inflectional behaviour. But, despite the recognition of this effect, most studies in this domain ignore frequencies in their analyses (e.g. Stump and Finkel, 2013; Stump, 2015; Bonami and Boyé, 2014; Bonami, 2014; Beniamine, 2018; Pellegrini, 2023). Yet other works, (e.g. Boyé, 2016; Herce, 2022; Sims-Williams, 2022), confirmed the importance of this effect on the predictability of inflected forms (a.k.a the Paradigm Cell Filling Problem, PCFP, Ack- erman et al. 2009). In this paper, we propose to test the impact of the token frequency on form predictions based on a reference database of inflected forms, Flexique (Bonami et al., 2014) and a cor- pus extracted lexicon with token frequencies, Lexique4Linguists (Schalchli, 2022) based on OpenSubtitles2016 (Lison and Tiedemann, 2016).

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halshs-04872828 , version 1 (08-01-2025)

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Gilles Boyé, Gauvain Schalchli. The PCFP and the Zipfian frequency distribution: The Median Threshold Hypothesis and French conjugation. 21st International Morphology Meeting, Aug 2024, Vienna, Austria. ⟨halshs-04872828⟩
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