An Empirical Test of Analogical Modeling: The K/ø Alternation

Authors

C. Anton Rytting, Brigham Young University
Dr. Royal Skousen, Brigham Young University
Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University

Keywords

analogical modeling, k/Ø alternation, stem-final velar consonants

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

Abstract

Turkish is an agglutinative language, meaning that each word consists of a word stem followed by a variable number of suffixes. Sometimes, the addition of suffixes causes the stem to change its form. For example, stem-final velar consonants (i.e., /k/ and /g/) tend to be deleted between a stem vowel and a suffix vowel:

Recommended Citation

Rytting, C. Anton; Skousen, Dr. Royal; and Lonsdale, Deryle (2014) "An Empirical Test of Analogical Modeling: The K/ø Alternation," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 672.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/672