@Article{Berent2004,
  author   = {Iris Berent and Vered Vaknin and Joseph Shimron},
  journal  = {Brain Lang},
  title    = {Does a theory of language need a grammar? {E}vidence from {H}ebrew root structure.},
  year     = {2004},
  number   = {1-3},
  pages    = {170-82},
  volume   = {90},
  abstract = {Hebrew constrains the occurrence of identical consonants in its roots:
	Identical consonants are acceptable root finally (e.g., skk), but
	not root initially (e.g., kks). Speakers' ability to freely generalize
	this constraint to novel phonemes () suggests that they represent
	segment identity-a relation among mental variables. An alternative
	account attributes the restriction on identical phonemes to their
	feature similarity, captured by either the number of shared features
	or their statistical frequency. The similarity account predicts that
	roots with partially similar consonants (e.g., sgk) should be at
	least as acceptable as roots with fully identical consonants (e.g.,
	skk), and each of these roots should be less acceptable than dissimilar
	controls (e.g., gdn). Contrary to these predictions, three lexical
	decision experiments demonstrate that full identity is more acceptable
	than partial similarity and (in some cases) controls. Speakers' sensitivity
	to consonant identity suggests that linguistic competence, in general,
	and phonology, in particular, encompass a computational mechanism
	that operates over variables. This conclusion is consistent with
	linguistic accounts that postulate a symbolic grammatical component
	that is irreducible to the statistical properties of the lexicon.},
  doi      = {10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00430-9},
  keywords = {15172535},
}

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