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Semantic transparency and doublet formation: the case of Hebrew location nouns Morphology Pub Date : 2024-03-12
Abstract This study examines the correlation between derivational paradigms and morphological variation and change. I will examine a case study of Hebrew location nouns formation. Semitic morphology relies highly on non-concatenative morphology, where words are formed in patterns. Some Hebrew location nouns that are formed in one pattern, receive an additional form in another pattern with no change
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The orthographic representation of a word’s morphological structure: beneficial and detrimental effect for spellers Morphology Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Dominiek Sandra, Dorit Ravid, Ingo Plag
In this paper we present a review of the literature on the role of a word’s morphological structure in written language processing, with an emphasis on spelling. First, we describe that many orthographies have opted for a representation of a word’s morphological structure. Second, we discuss experiments that have demonstrated the importance of a word’s morphological structure in reading, both in isolated
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On the nature and organisation of morphological categories: verbal aspect through the lens of associative learning Morphology Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Dagmar Divjak, Irene Testini, Petar Milin
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Effects of parallel syntactic training in French plural spelling and German noun capitalization Morphology Pub Date : 2024-02-06
Abstract French plural markers and German noun capitalization encode syntactic information. Both syntactic markers present the syntactic information needed reliably and saliently, and both are unrelated to phonology. A main difference between both is that French plural spelling is part of inflection morphology and encodes the plural morphemes in written French. German noun capitalization is not a morpheme
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Conversion in languages with different morphological structures: a semantic comparison of English and Czech Morphology Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Hana Hledíková, Magda Ševčíková
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The cognitive reality of morphomes. Evidence from Italian Morphology Pub Date : 2023-12-29
Abstract This study reports and discusses the results of a pilot psycholinguistic investigation into the morphome – a term created (Aronoff 1994) to indicate systematic relations between form and meaning in morphology which lack synchronic semantic, functional, or phonological determinants and are thereby purely morphological. Despite a general consensus (cf. Bermúdez-Otero and Luís 2016) on the need
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Processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish: evidence from the Visual World Paradigm Morphology Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Zuzanna Fuchs
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Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data Morphology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Kristian Berg, Stefan Hartmann, Daniel Claeser
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Integrative views of representations and processes in morphology: an introduction Morphology Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Claudia Marzi, Vito Pirrelli
One of the most enduring conceptualisations of the language architecture rests on a modular subdivision of work between lexical representations of stored items on the one hand, and dynamic processes, modelled as procedural rules working on such items, on the other hand. In morphology, network-based approaches have suggested an alternative “integrative” view of word representations and processes, where
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A discriminative information-theoretical analysis of the regularity gradient in inflectional morphology Morphology Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Claudia Marzi, Vito Pirrelli
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The primacy of morphology in English braille spelling: an analysis of bridging contractions Morphology Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Robert Englebretson, M. Cay Holbrook, Rebecca Treiman, Simon Fischer-Baum
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A formal account of morphological epenthesis in Serbo-Croatian Morphology Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Andrija Petrovic
This article analyzes stem allomorphy in Serbo-Croatian neuter noun inflection as morphological epenthesis. I demonstrate that consonant insertion in the inflection of Serbo-Croatian neuter nouns is a predictable, morphologically conditioned process, rather than an artifact of listed stem allomorphy. Furthermore, the process is not phonologically optimizing, and does not depend on phonological conditions
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The implicative structure of Asama verb paradigms Morphology Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Dimitri Lévêque, Thomas Pellard
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Syntagmatic paradigms: learning correspondence from contiguity Morphology Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Amy Smolek, Vsevolod Kapatsinski
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The morphologization of German noun-participle combinations. A diachronic case study Morphology Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Carlotta J. Hübener
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On the role of morphology in early spelling in Hebrew and Arabic Morphology Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad, Ravit Cohen-Mimran
It is well known that learning to spell is a complex and challenging process, especially for young learners, in part because it relies on multiple aspects of linguistic knowledge, such as phonology and morphology. The present longitudinal study investigated the role of morphology in early spelling in two Semitic languages, Hebrew and Arabic, that are structurally similar but differ in the phonological
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The roots of consonant bias in semitic languages: a critical review of psycholinguistic studies of languages with non-concatenative morphology Morphology Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Si Berrebi, Outi Bat-El, Aya Meltzer-Asscher
Languages with non-concatenative morphology are often claimed to include consonantal root morphemes in their lexicon. Previous psycholinguistic studies strengthened the Root Hypothesis, showing that words in Arabic, Hebrew, and Maltese prime targets with the same stem consonants, with semantic relation playing a limited role. We provide a re-analysis of previous psycholinguistic studies and claim that
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Modeling locative prefix semantics. A formal account of the English verbal prefix out- Morphology Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Sven Kotowski
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The effect of verbal conjugation predictability on speech signal Morphology Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Daiki Hashimoto
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Affix polyfunctionality in French deverbal nominalizations Morphology Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Justine Salvadori, Richard Huyghe
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A case for a binary feature underlying clusivity: the possibility of ABA Morphology Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Katya Pertsova
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Stratification effects without morphological strata, syllable counting effects without counts – modelling English stress assignment with Naive Discriminative Learning Morphology Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Robin Schrecklinger, Fabian Tomaschek
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Compound-internal anaphora: evidence from acceptability judgements on Italian argumental compounds Morphology Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Irene Lami, Joost van de Weijer
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Derivational timing of morphomes: canonicity and rule ordering in the Armenian aorist stem Morphology Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Hossep Dolatian, Peter Guekguezian
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Binomial adjective doublets in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account Morphology Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Kimi Akita, Keiko Murasugi
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Learning a typologically unusual reduplication pattern: An artificial language learning study of base-dependent reduplication Morphology Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Jason D. Haugen, Adam Ussishkin, Colin Reimer Dawson
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Explaining dynamic morphological patterns in acquisition using Network Analysis Morphology Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Elitzur Dattner, Orit Ashkenazi, Dorit Ravid, Ronit Levie
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Review of Eva Zimmermann: Morphological length and prosodically defective morphemes Morphology Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Paul de Lacy
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Outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy vs. first-last tone harmony in Cilungu Morphology Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Nicholas Rolle, Lee Bickmore
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A dedicated nominal singular morpheme without singulative semantics Morphology Pub Date : 2022-02-22 David Erschler
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ParaDis: a family and paradigm model Morphology Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer
The unification of inflectional and derivational morphology is an issue that is often debated but on which there is no consensus. On the other hand, it is well known that inflectional morphology is organized into paradigms. This paper contributes to the convergence between inflection and derivation by offering a new paradigmatic model of derivational morphology. This model, called ParaDis, is based
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Frozen reduplication in Gizey: insights into analogical reduplication, phonological and morphological doubling in Masa Morphology Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Guillaume Guitang
This paper discusses analogy as a source of total reduplication in Gizey (Masa < Chadic < Afroasiatic). Building on the Dual Theory of reduplication, I first argue that CV- reduplication in the Masa branch of Chadic is a phonological duplication substituting for the segmental material of a now obsolete prefix (*mV-). I then show that a considerable number of total reduplicatives in Gizey derive from
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Vowel length in Friulian verbs: a case of mora affixation Morphology Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Nicola Lampitelli, Paolo Roseano, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
This paper deals with vowel length in Friulian, and shows that this is sometimes phonologically predictable and sometimes an instance of mora affixation in conjugation 1 verbs. Building on newly collected data on verbal morphology, we make the hypothesis that the Theme morpheme in conjugation 1 verbs in the dialect of Negrons has distinct allomorphs, among which a mora. This analysis of morphological
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Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features Morphology Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Corbett, Greville G.
Lexemes may be split internally, by phenomena such as suppletion, periphrasis, heteroclisis and deponency. Generalizing over these phenomena, which split a lexeme’s paradigm, we can establish a typology of the possible internal splits. There are also lexemes whose external requirements are split: they induce different agreement, for instance. Again, a typology of these splits has been proposed. The
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CAOSS and transcendence: Modeling role-dependent constituent meanings in compounds Morphology Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Günther, Fritz, Marelli, Marco
Many theories on the role of semantics in morphological representation and processing focus on the interplay between the lexicalized meaning of the complex word on the one hand, and the individual constituent meanings on the other hand. However, the constituent meaning representations at play do not necessarily correspond to the free-word meanings of the constituents: Role-dependent constituent meanings
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Modern Hebrew prefixoids: description and morpho-syntactic analysis Morphology Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Faust, Noam
In Modern Hebrew, prefixoids such as tat ‘sub’, χad ‘mono’, etc. appear on nouns and suffixed adjectives. The status of the prefixoid is not clear: in some respects, it behaves like the morphological head, but in others it behaves like the dependent. Focusing on tat ‘sub’, this paper provides both the first thorough description of such an item and a morphological analysis. It is claimed that the prefixoid
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Verbose exponence: Integrating the typologies of multiple and distributed exponence Morphology Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Matthew J. Carroll
Multiple exponence is the multiple marking of the same feature or category within a single word. Distributed exponence is the occurrence of morphological structure such that providing a precise interpretation of a category can only be determined after considering more than one morphological formative. I propose the term verbose exponence to capture the common ground between these phenomena, i.e. all
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Morphomic structure in Mauritian Kreol: On change, complexity and creolization Morphology Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Fabiola Henri
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on morphological structure, complexity and change in both the area of morphology and that of creolistics by revisiting the phenomenon of verb form alternation in Mauritian Kreol (I will from here onwards refer to the language as Mauritian for readability even though speakers refer to it as kreol.), a French lexified creole. Using a lexical database of 2039
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Grounding semantic transparency in context Morphology Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Rossella Varvara, Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Padó
We present the results of a large-scale corpus-based comparison of two German event nominalization patterns: deverbal nouns in -ung (e.g., die Evaluierung, ‘the evaluation’) and nominal infinitives (e.g., das Evaluieren, ‘the evaluating’). Among the many available event nominalization patterns for German, we selected these two because they are both highly productive and challenging from the semantic
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The duration of word-final s in English: A comparison of regular-plural and pluralia-tantum nouns Morphology Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Marcel Schlechtweg, Greville G. Corbett
The alveolar fricative occurs in word-final position in English in different grammatical functions. Nominal suffixes may indicate plurality (e.g. cars), genitive case (e.g. car’s) or plurality and genitive case in cumulation (e.g. cars’). Further, there are the third person singular verbal suffix (e.g. she fears) and the cliticized forms of the third person singular forms of have and be (e.g. she’s
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Inflectional predictability and prosodic morphology in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Morphology Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Sasha Wilmoth, John Mansfield
Lexically stipulated suppletive allomorphy, such as that found in inflection class systems, makes wordforms unpredictable because any one of several exponents may be used to express some morphosyntactic property set. However, recent research shows that apparently complex inflectional paradigms can be organised in such a way that knowing one inflected form of a lexeme greatly reduces the uncertainty
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Is the English writing system phonographic or lexical/morphological? A new look at the spelling of stems Morphology Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Kristian Berg, Mark Aronoff
The graphemic distinctiveness of simple word stems in written English (henceforth stems) is usually discussed in terms of the discrimination of homophones: Two or more distinct stems that share a phonological form each have a unique graphemic form (e.g., meat / meet; pair / pear / pare) and in some cases we cannot ascribe the different spellings to etymology: scent ‘should’ be spelled sent given its
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Special Issue: Phonological and phonetic variation in spoken morphology Morphology Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Ruben van de Vijver, Fabian Tomaschek
In recent years, more and more evidence is accumulating that there is a great deal of variation as a result of morphological complexity, both at the level of phonology and at the level of phonetics. Such findings challenge established linguistic models in which morphological information is lost in comprehension or production. The present Special Issue presents five studies that investigate the phenomenon
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Paradigmatic enhancement of stem vowels in regular English inflected verb forms Morphology Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Fabian Tomaschek, Benjamin V. Tucker, Michael Ramscar, R. Harald Baayen
Many theories of word structure in linguistics and morphological processing in cognitive psychology are grounded in a compositional perspective on the (mental) lexicon in which complex words are built up during speech production from sublexical elements such as morphemes, stems, and exponents. When combined with the hypothesis that storage in the lexicon is restricted to the irregular, the prediction
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Pseudo-ABA patterns in pronominal morphology Morphology Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Jane Middleton
In this paper, I present an analysis of pseudo-ABA patterns of morphology found in pronominal forms. I argue that an analysis that assumes unrestricted phonologically null allomorphy or unrestricted impoverishment overgenerates, allowing all the logically possible patterns of syncretism to appear. An analysis that includes spanned portmanteau exponents generates all and only the attested patterns of
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Correction to: How sensitive are adults to the role of morphology in spelling? Morphology Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Rebecca Treiman, Sloane Wolter, Brett Kessler
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-021-09375-9
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Paradigmatic structure in the tonal inflection of Amuzgo Morphology Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Enrique L. Palancar
The tonal inflection of verbs of the Amuzgo language of San Pedro Amuzgos (Oto-Manguean, Mexico) displays a great degree of allomorphy. When faced with allomorphy of this sort, the inflectional class model often reveals an internal logic in a system, but in the case of Amuzgo organizing the inflection into tonal classes results instead in a system which is seemingly chaotic, and somewhat impractical
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Introduction to the special issue morphological spelling Morphology Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Kristian Berg,Mark Aronoff
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Visible verbal morphology: Morpheme constancy in Germanic and Romance verbal inflection Morphology Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Nanna Fuhrhop
In different spelling systems, different grades of morpheme constancy can be found: German has a high degree of morpheme constancy (especially stem constancy, for example rennen – rennt both forms with ), while English has comparatively less (running – run, only the disyllabic form with ). This paper investigates the interaction between stems and verbal inflectional suffixes in terms of constancy in
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Below the surface: The application of implicit morpho-graphic regularities to novel word spelling Morphology Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Vera Heyer
Previous corpus studies have shown that the English spelling system is ‘morpho-graphic’ (Berg and Aronoff 2017) in that affixes are spelt in a consistent way (e.g., ‹ous› in famous) that distinguishes them from homophonous word endings without grammatical function (e.g., ‹us› in bonus). The present paper investigates if English spellers apply these regularities to the spelling of novel words implicitly
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Reduplication in Abui: A case of pattern extension Morphology Pub Date : 2020-10-30 Marian Klamer, George Saad
This paper studies the effect of ongoing contact on the Abui reduplication system. Abui, a Papuan indigenous minority language of eastern Indonesia, has been in contact with the regional lingua franca, Alor Malay (Austronesian), for around 50–60 years. Throughout this period, contact with Alor Malay has affected different age groups in different ways across various levels of grammar. Here we compare
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Borrowing matter and pattern in morphology. An overview Morphology Pub Date : 2020-10-30 Francesco Gardani
Morphological inventories and structures of languages in contact can converge by means of either increasing formal similarity (MAT borrowing), or structural congruence (PAT borrowing), or a combination of both (MAT&PAT borrowing). In order to understand whether and how these borrowing types covary with specific grammatical features and modules of grammar, I propose a typology of MAT and PAT borrowing
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The role of heads and cyclicity in bracketing paradoxes in Armenian compounds Morphology Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Hossep Dolatian
It is often argued that words have complex internal structure in terms of their morphology, phonology, and semantics. On the surface, Armenian compounds present a bracketing paradox between their morphological and phonological structure. I argue that this bracketing paradox simultaneously references endocentricity, strata, and prosody. I use Armenian as a case study to argue for the use of cyclic approaches
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Analogy, complexity and predictability in the Russian nominal inflection system Morphology Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Matías Guzmán Naranjo
The Paradigm Cell Filling Problem ( pcfp ): “What licenses reliable inferences about the inflected (and derived) surface forms of a lexical item?”Ackerman et al. ( 2009 , p. 54) has received considerable attention during the last decade. The two main approaches that have been explored are the Information Theoretic approach which aims to measure the information contained in the implicative relations
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Analogy, complexity and predictability in the Russian nominal inflection system Morphology Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Matías Guzmán Naranjo
The Paradigm Cell Filling Problem ( pcfp ): “What licenses reliable inferences about the inflected (and derived) surface forms of a lexical item?”Ackerman et al. ( 2009 , p. 54) has received considerable attention during the last decade. The two main approaches that have been explored are the Information Theoretic approach which aims to measure the information contained in the implicative relations
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What’s in an agent? Morphology Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Richard Huyghe,Marine Wauquier
This article investigates the morphological diversity of agent nouns (ANs) in French. It addresses the questions of which nouns form a semantically coherent class of ANs, what their morphological properties are, and whether these properties correlate with agentive subtypes. To deal with these issues, a distributional semantics approach is adopted. The investigation is based on the distributional study
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What’s in an agent? Morphology Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Richard Huyghe, Marine Wauquier
This article investigates the morphological diversity of agent nouns (ANs) in French. It addresses the questions of which nouns form a semantically coherent class of ANs, what their morphological properties are, and whether these properties correlate with agentive subtypes. To deal with these issues, a distributional semantics approach is adopted. The investigation is based on the distributional study