Anastasia Ulicheva
(Royal Holloway University of London)
6/22/17, 9:40 AM
The relationship between spelling and sound is highly inconsistent in English. This inconsistency is often caused by the preservation of morphological information in spelling (e.g. retaining the stem HEAL in HEALTH). In this paper, we report a large-scale computational linguistic analysis designed to explore the morphological regularities associated with derivational English suffixes. This...
Stefanie Regel
(Humboldt University Berlin)
6/22/17, 10:00 AM
The present study examines how compounds (e.g., teaspoon) are stored and processed at the lemma and the word form level in the mental lexicon. According to two-stage models (e.g., Levelt et al. 1999) compounds are represented holistically at the lemma level and decomposed at the form level, while other models propose decomposed representations of compounds at the lemma level (Marelli et al.,...
Pauline QUEMART
(University of Poitiers, France)
6/22/17, 10:20 AM
A large number of studies have shown the influence of morphemes in visual word recognition (Amenta & Crepaldi, 2012). By contrast, the influence of morphemes on written word production has been far less studied. Kandel et al. (2012) have shown that adults process derivational morphemes when writing (see also Bertram et al., 2016). This processing may interfere with written word production...
Mirjana Bozic
(University of Cambridge)
6/22/17, 11:10 AM
There is substantial evidence pointing to an early, automatic segmentation of written words into their constituent units (farm-er, wit-ness); however, less is known about the potential role of contextual information in modulating this analysis. We adapted the standard masked priming paradigm to include an overt semantic prime in order to examine whether semantic context influences...
Yael Farhy
(University of Potsdam)
6/22/17, 11:30 AM
Morphological priming effects are often interpreted as evidence that complex words are represented in terms of their constituent structure (Marslen-Wilson et al., 1994). Alternatively, Connectionist approaches attribute these priming effects to phonological and semantic overlap, without resorting to structured representations (Gonnerman et al., 2007). Evidence for the role of morphological...
Simona Amenta
(Ghent University)
6/22/17, 11:50 AM
The role of semantics in the early stages of morphological processing has been extensively studied, but results have been at times inconsistent.
To address this issue we propose the application of Orthography-Semantic Consistency (OSC), a measure of how well the meaning of a given word can be predicted from its form. OSC is operationally defined as the degree of semantic relatedness between...
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
(University of Turku)
6/22/17, 12:10 PM
Studies have shown that during sentence processing people generate expectations about upcoming input which modulate processing time (see Kamide, Altmann, & Haywood, 2003; Levy, 2008). In this study, we investigate how probability-based expectations about grammatical aspect, i.e., the internal flow of time in an event, influence online processing (see Madden & Zwaan, 2003; Ferretti, Kutas, &...
Betty Mousikou
(Reading Education and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
6/22/17, 2:00 PM
The morphological complexity of a word is thought to affect the time taken to prepare a verbal response. However, whether it also affects its pronunciation is currently under debate. In the present study, we investigated this issue in German using a reading aloud task. Sixty skilled adult readers read aloud 80 nonwords, comprising 40 morphologically-complex nonwords (e.g., HUNDUNG, where...
Marcus Taft
(School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Australia)
6/22/17, 2:20 PM
A masked priming experiment was designed to compare an account of visual polymorphemic word recognition that entails obligatory decomposition and a dual pathways account where such decomposition is supplemented with a whole-word recognition system through which words are decomposed post-lexically. Letter transposition was applied to word primes taken from a previous study, creating nonword...
Sendy Caffarra
(Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language)
6/22/17, 2:40 PM
Grammatical processing can be affected by speaker identity (Hanulikova et al., 2012), as well as construction frequency (Hahne & Friederici, 1999). However, it is still not clear whether native listeners are sensitive to the typicality of grammatical errors from a set of speakers (e.g., non-native L2 speakers). To address this question we considered grammatical errors that English natives...
Amy Goodwin Davies
(University of Pennsylvania),
Robert Wilder
(University of Pennsylvania)
6/22/17, 3:00 PM
Stem priming effects can be attributed to combinations of morphological, phonological, and semantic factors. To understand morphological processing, these factors should be dissociated. Previous research addressed this through time-course of effects (Feldman 2000) or carefully-constructed controls (Stockall & Marantz 2006).
Previously, we incorporated rhyme into a stem-priming task...
Sina Bosch
(University of Potsdam, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
The relation between age and language acquisition has been subject to controversial debates in the language sciences. In particular, the question whether there is an ideal time window for the acquisition of grammatical knowledge has received much attention. The present study investigated effects of age of acquisition (AoA) of an L2 on the processing of fine-grained grammatical operations. In a...
Varvara Magomedova
(Stony Brook University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
In late insertion theories of morphology, phonological form can play no role in
determining syntactic properties in the process of features interact with semantic ones when determining the choice of a morpheme. Russian expressive derivation provide evidence that phonological form must sometimes be considered before the presupposed Vocabulary Insertion step takes place. In this presentation, I...
Basak Karatas
(University of Maryland),
Kira Gor
(University of Maryland)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
This study examines the extent to which native speakers (NSs) and advanced nonnative speakers (NNSs) of a highly-inflected language, Turkish, are sensitive to case markers as morphosyntactic cues to detect syntactic complexity and case violations. Self-paced reading (SPR) and grammaticality judgment tasks (GJT) were employed to test the degree of sensitivity to the substitution of accusative...
Emmanuel Cartier
(LIPN, Université Paris 13)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Every Language is constantly evolving, due to several historical, sociological and economic reasons. Morphology is one of the aspects of the linguistic change. One way to grasp these changes is to study word-formation trends, also named formal neology, which mainly resorts to derivation, composition, truncation and borrowing (Schmid, 2015). In this work, we propose to explore new word...
Aditi Lahiri
(University of Oxford),
Swetlana Schuster
(University of Oxford)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Within theoretical linguistics, the study of morphology is as much concerned with the structure of words in a particular language as with a way to capture the variation that exists across languages. Accordingly, empirical investigations into morphological processing have focused on a variety of languages ranging from English and German (cf. Crepaldi et al. 2015; Smolka et al. 2015) to...
Jana Reifegerste
(Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, Germany)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Unusual populations sometimes provide evidence for theoretically relevant contrasts that are more difficult to get from fit young native speakers. One case in point is derivational vs. inflectional morphology which in a number of masked priming studies (e.g., Jacob et al., in press; Kırkıcı & Clahsen, 2013; Veríssimo et al., 2016) yielded a dissociation for late bilinguals (L2) but not for...
Isidora Gatarić
(Social Sciences and Computing, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
According to theoretical studies deverbal nominals in Serbian can be divided into process and result nominals. Furthermore, there are three subtypes of process and result nominals, which differ in certain morphological characteristics: (i) process and result nominals that differ in the presence of the –va infix (e.g. rešenje/rešavanje) (ii) result nominals have the zero-suffix and process have...
Filiz Rızaoğlu
(Pamukkale University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
In this study, proficient second language (L2) speakers’ processing of past tense morphology was investigated in order to understand whether their processing routes (i.e., decomposition, storage or a dual-route) were comparable with native (L1) speakers of English. By means of a masked priming task (MPT), the reaction times (RT) for regular and irregular verbs were measured. The study also...
Francesca Carota
(Humboldt University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Grammatical category plays an important role in word formation processes, which typically modify both meaning and grammatical properties of existing words by combining them with derivational affixes. Here we investigate how grammatical category affects the neurocognitive representations of derivationally complex forms focusing on the distributional contrast in Italian between denominal and...
Raymond Bertram
(University of Turku),
Rosa Salmela
(Åbo Akademi University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Finnish morphology is notoriously difficult for L2 speakers. The rich inflectional
paradigms and the abundant compound possibilities enforces anybody who wishes to be
even a moderate proficient language user in Finnish to quickly develop morphological
knowledge and awareness in this language. The current study investigates to what
extent this development is complicated by...
Hannah-Leigh Nicholls
(Coventry University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Children with language difficulties very commonly have additional literacy difficulties (MacArthur et al., 2000). However, most of the research investigating this comorbidity has focused on phonological awareness. The current project is a systematic investigation of the morphological skills of language impaired children, with and without additional literacy difficulties. Researchers have...
Natalia Slioussar
(HSE, Moscow, & St.Petersburg State University),
Pavel Shilin
(St.Petersburg State University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Many experimental studies examined different aspects of number agreement, while agreement in other features received less attention. We report a self-paced reading experiment studying how the inflectional class (declension) a noun belongs to and its gender influence the processing of gender agreement in Russian.
Russian has two numbers and six cases, and every declension has a different set...
Julia Carden
(University of Buenos Aires)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
How morpheme position is represented within the word recognition system is an issue of great importance to any model postulating a sublexical decomposition of morphologically-complex words. Crepaldi, Rastle & Davis (2010) and Crepaldi, Hemsworth, Davis & Rastle (2015) studied this matter focusing their attention on the processing of English suffixes, and reached the conclusion that their...
Beinan Zhou
(University of Oxford),
Sandra Kotzor
(University of Oxford; Oxford Brookes University)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Some evidence suggests that phonological transparency is used when processing morphologically complex words (c.f. Amenta & Crepaldi, 2012). However, in the form priming literature, the effect of phonological overlap is not conclusive (cf. Giraudo and Dal Maso, 2016). Priming experiments often show inhibition (Colombo, 1986) or null effects (Marslen-Wilson et al., 1994), rather than...
Marina Oganyan
(University of Washington)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
This study investigates decomposition of affixed vs unaffixed and templatic vs concatenative words in Hebrew using the ERP paradigm.
**Background**: In languages with concatenative morphologies (e.g. Indo-European), words are composed of lexical stems and affixes; these complex (affixed) words are decomposed during reading (Taft 2004). ERP and MEG studies revealed costs for decomposition...
Vera Heyer
(University of Braunschweig)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Despite decades of psycholinguistic research on semantic transparency, researchers still disagree about whether morpho-semantic information is used in the earliest processing stages, resulting in stronger priming effects for transparent (*walker*) than for opaque (*corner*) forms (Beyersmann et al., 2015; Feldman et al., 2015). In two masked priming studies with English -*ness* and Russian ...
Sanja Radman
(Department of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Simple event nominals (SENs) in English fall into a category in between complex event nominals (CENs) and result nominals (RNs), as they share features of both. Crucially, unlike CENs, SENs do not take arguments (e.g. Grimshaw, 1990). In Serbian, however, CENs can appear with no arguments at all when they are formed out of detransitivized verbs (Zlatić, 1997), patterning thus with SENs rather...
Francesca Franzon
(Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Morphological Number is widespread throughout natural languages and it is mostly marked on nouns denoting animate entities (Haspelmath, 2013). This trend may mirror the salience of number and animacy, whose conceiving relies on a core knowledge system, early available in development and phylogenetically ancient, dedicated to representing significant aspects of the environment such as...
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Miguel Lázaro
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
The role of morphological processing has been shown to be very relevant in learning to read. However, there is little evidence from a developmental perspective about the processing of derivational suffixes. In this study we focus on them and carry out an experiment with 70 children in which we explore the suffix priming effect. Children of fourth and fifth grade took part in this experiment as...
Emmanuel Keuleers
(Tilburg School of Humanities Department of Communication and Information Sciences)
6/23/17, 9:05 AM
Psycholinguistics has tended to formulate its fundamental questions according to the pattern “What is the psychological implementation of a linguistic notion?”, such as "What is the content of the mental lexicon?" or "How is morphology organized in the brain?". I will argue that questions like these presuppose the lexical and morphological modularity of traditional linguistics. By definition,...
Micheal Ramscar
(University of Tubingen)
6/23/17, 9:25 AM
Traditional studies of language assume an atomistic model in which linguistic signals comprise discrete, minimal form elements associated with discrete, minimal elements of meaning. Since linguistic production has been seen to involve the composition of messages from an inventory of form elements, and linguistic comprehension the subsequent decomposition of these messages, researchers in...
Vito Pirrelli
(CNR, Pisa)
6/23/17, 9:45 AM
Symposium 1 -- Quantitative Morphology
The advent of connectionism in the 80’s popularised the idea that the lexical processor
consists of a network of parallel processing units selectively firing in response to sensory
stimuli. In the light of these assumptions, the most important contribution of connectionism
to the theoretical debate on lexical modelling at the time was the utter rejection of the widely
accepted idea that...
Franziska Broeker
(Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie),
Harald Baayen
(Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen/University of Alberta),
Maja Linke
(Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)),
Michael Ramscar
(Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
6/23/17, 10:05 AM
The ability of Baboons (Papio papio) to distinguish between English words and nonwords [1] has been modeled using a deep learning convolutional network model that simulates a ventral pathway in which lexical representations of different granularity develop [2]. However, given that pigeons (Columba livia), whose brain morphology is drastically different, can also be trained to distinguish...
Tali Bitan
(Department of Psychology, IIPDM, University of Haifa; Department of Speech Pathology, University of Toronto)
6/23/17, 10:50 AM
We examined the neurocognitive basis of distributional factors underlying learning and generalization of affixal inflectional morphology in a novel language. Our behavioral study examined effects of three factors in adults acquiring plural suffixation in an artificial language, over six sessions: affix type frequency (number of words receiving an affix), phonological predictability (degree...
Cristina Burani
(Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, ISTC-CNR, Rome; Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste)
6/23/17, 11:10 AM
Italian children with dyslexia are extremely slow at reading long words. However, they read faster stimuli composed of roots and derivational suffixes (e.g., CASSIERE, ‘cashier’) than stimuli not decomposable in morphemes (e.g., CAMMELLO, ‘camel’). The present study assessed whether root length modulates morphological processing. For skilled readers, reliance on the root might depend on its...
Helen Breadmore
(Coventry University)
6/23/17, 11:30 AM
Morphological awareness is demonstrated to be a key contributor to literacy development. Nonetheless, little is known about how children actually use morphological information as they read and write. To address this, we examine children’s use of root morphemes in spelling. We use newly developed online measurement to study the processes involved in generating correct spellings in addition to...
Sascha Schroeder
(Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
6/23/17, 11:50 AM
Masked priming studies comparing morpho-orthographic and morpho-semantic processing in children have seen an increase in recent years. However, the exact developmental trajectory of morphological priming effects remains unclear. It has been suggested that, for adults, the effects are modulated by reading, spelling, and vocabulary skills. This is of special relevance when studying children for...
João Veríssimo
(University of Potsdam)
6/23/17, 1:50 PM
Much psycholinguistic research has provided evidence for the surface-form segmentation of complex words, but comparatively less attention has been paid to the organisation of morphology at ‘higher levels’ (but see Marelli & Baroni, 2015). Although several models of morphological processing make use of a lemma level interacting with morpho-orthographic representations, such proposals are not...
Marco Marelli
(University of Milano-Bicocca)
6/23/17, 2:10 PM
In most languages, words can be combined to create novel compounds that are readily understandable by speakers. Crucially, the compound meaning is not only determined by the two words, but also by the (unexpressed) relation that links them together: we have a clear intuition that *snow building* means *a building MADE OF snow*, even if we have never heard it before. In the present work, we...
Daniel Schmidtke
(University of Alberta)
6/23/17, 2:30 PM
Research suggests that compound word recognition is guided by the activation of a relational structure that links the compound’s constituents (e.g., *steamboat* is a ‘boat that *uses* steam’; Gagné & Shoben, 1997). Schmidtke et al. (2016) demonstrated that part of this process is competitive in nature. They found that greater relative difficulty in converging on a compound’s relational...
Raymond Bertram
(University of Turku)
6/23/17, 2:50 PM
In Chinese, efficient segmentation strategies are crucial for fluent reading, as word boundaries are not signaled by obvious segmentation cues like spaces. In alphabetic languages like English, word boundaries are clearly indicated by interword spaces and presenting these languages in the same way as Chinese, that is without interword spacing, slows down reading to a great extent (Rayner et...
Victor Kuperman
(McMaster University)
6/23/17, 3:10 PM
Symposium 2 - The time course of morphological processing as revealed by analyses of distributions and of means
Talk
A critical point for many conflicting accounts of morphological processing is the relative time-course of formal (orthographic, phonological and morphological) and semantic effects during visual recognition of complex words. This talk address this question with the help of a nonparametric technique of survival analysis (Reingold & Sheridan, 2014, 2016), designed to estimate the temporal onset...
R. Harald Baayen
(U Tubingen)
6/23/17, 3:30 PM
Symposium 2 - The time course of morphological processing as revealed by analyses of distributions and of means
Talk
We present two statistical methods that make it possible to assess whether the effect of predictors
on a response variable vary within the distribution of the response. Dynamic survival analysis is
applicable to durational responses such as reaction times, fixation durations, and acoustic durations.
Quantile regression can be applied to any kind of measurement, not only durations but also...
Laurie Feldman
(SUNY, Albany & Haskins Labs)
6/23/17, 3:50 PM
Symposium 2 - The time course of morphological processing as revealed by analyses of distributions and of means
Talk
Accounts of morphological processing differ with respect to whether morphological effects fall out of learning-based principles (e.g., convergence, discrimination) or whether morphological structure is explicitly represented in our lexical knowledge. We examine how the contribution of meaning (and form) similarity differs across time with quantile regression and dynamic survival analysis. Data...
Adam Albright
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6/24/17, 9:30 AM
Empirical tests of productivity and decomposition use etymological, semantic, and distributional criteria to classify items into categories, such as transparently affixed, opaquely affixed, pseudoaffixed, or unaffixed. Such classifications require analysts, as well as language learners, to know semantic and syntactic properties of forms, identify potential base forms, and determine which...
Sebastian Bank
(University of Leipzig)
6/24/17, 9:50 AM
The automation of analysis allows to make the comparison between competing hypotheses in theoretical morphology more explicit: Implementing learning algorithms that break down unanalyzed inflectional paradigms into form-meaning pairs and possibly a full grammar allows to investigate the empirical consequences of hypotheses or frameworks in detail (e.g Anderson 1992, Halle & Marantz 1993, Stump...
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
(University of Manchester)
6/24/17, 10:10 AM
Linguistic theory affords several ways of using grammatical evidence in support of the lexical storage of morphologically complex forms. These theoretical lines of argument are particularly persuasive when they converge with the results of independent psycholinguistic experiments.
One type of evidence comes from allomorphic locality. Assume that allomorphy involves competition between...
João Veríssimo
(University of Potsdam)
6/24/17, 10:30 AM
The ‘classical’ approach to morphology ascribes productivity to knowledge of rules: categorical, context-free operations which create structured representations. Alternatively, within analogical, connectionist, and stochastic approaches, it has been proposed that the mechanisms that generalise and process complex forms are inherently graded, as well as frequency- and similarity-sensitive. In...
Kira Gor
(University of Maryland)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
A study of Polish case-inflected nouns showed activation in the left perisylvian area, both for zero-inflected citation-form nouns and overtly inflected oblique-case nouns (Szlachta et al., 2012). However, because case and inflection were confounded, this made it impossible to separate the activation related to the processing of overt inflection and case. We report the results of an fMRI study...
Christos Pliatsikas
(School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Four experiments investigate the effects of covert morphological complexity during
visual word recognition. Zero-derivations occur in English in which a change of grammatical
class occurs without any change in surface form (e.g., a bridge-to bridge; to bump-a bump).
Bridge is object-derived and is a basic noun (N), whereas bump is action-derived and is a
basic verb (V). As the suffix...
Christina Manouilidou
(University of Ljubljana)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
We investigated the production and lexical access of compounds in the semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA-s), a language impairment caused by neurodegenerative disease and characterized by word meaning breakdown in absence of grammatical difficulties (Mesulam, 2013). While inflectional & derivational morphology has been examined in PPA-s (e.g. Auclair-Ouellet, 2015),...
Giorgio Arcara
(IRCCS Fondazione Ospedale San Camillo, Venice, Italy)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Morphological Number usually encodes the referential numerosity, denoting one entity (singular) or more than one (plural). However, also quantifiers encode information about the numerosity. The Italian quantification expressions for ‘some’, *qualche+nounSG* and *alcuni+nounPL*, refer to a plural numerosity; however nouns agree in the plural with *alcuni* but in the singular with *qualche*....
Christina Manouilidou
(University of Ljubljana)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Pseudo-words of the type *re-happy present with a conflict in terms of stem-suffix combinability. Apart from knowledge of grammar, processing this type of pseudo-words demands the involvement of executive functions which allow the processor to evaluate the conflicting information (re- + adj) and detect the violation. We explored the relationship between executive control and morphological...
Beinan Zhou
(University of Oxford),
Sandra Kotzor
(University of Oxford)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Morphological complexity in Germanic may involve considerable form overlap. Non-native speakers not only appear to concentrate more on declarative knowledge than decomposition in morphological processing (e.g. Bowden et al. 2010) but they also appear to be guided more strongly by surface orthographic factors when processing complex words in masked priming studies (e.g. Heyer & Clahsen 2014)....
Miguel Lázaro
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Whether morphological decomposition of complex words occurs independently of semantics and orthography is a matter of intense debate. In this study, morphological processing is examined by presenting complex words (brujería -> brujo –witchcraft -> witch), as well as simple (brujaña ->brujo) and complex pseudowords (brujanza ->brujo), as primes in four masked lexical decision tasks. In the...
Anastasia Chuprina
(School of linguistics, HSE, Moscow),
Natalia Slioussar
(School of linguistics, HSE, Moscow)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
It was shown that access to the base word depends on the properties of its derivatives, most notably on the morphological family size (e.g. Moscoso del Prado Martin 2004). Evidently, this effect is due to the fact that derivationally related words are connected in the mental lexicon. We explore the role of different factors in the relative strength of such connections.
In Russian, verbs can...
Anna Jessen
(University of Potsdam)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Traditional wisdom has it that bilingual children’s language acquisition is delayed relative to milestones of monolingual development. For vocabulary development, this has been shown to be incorrect, if a bilingual’s combined vocabulary size is considered (1). But what about bilingual children’s morphological skills?
We addressed this question by examining processes involved in producing...
Jana Reifegerste
(Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, Germany)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Substantial research has examined the neural bases of morphology, and how morphological processing is affected in brain disorders. Parkinson’s disease (PD), in which frontal/basal-ganglia circuits undergo degeneration, may elucidate these issues. Ullman et al. (1997) reported that higher right-side hypokinesia, which reflects left frontal/basal-ganglia degeneration, predicted worse performance...
Jana Hasenäcker
(Max Planck Institute for Human Development, MPRG Reading Education and Development)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Models of compound processing differ in their assumptions concerning the role of the constituents in word recognition. Especially in languages with productive compounding, decomposition could facilitate the reading of new combinations. In German, some stems enter into compounds more often in first position (e.g., *Sandhügel, Sandburg, Sandkasten*) and only seldom in the second position (e.g.,...
Filiz Rızaoğlu
(Pamukkale University)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
The process whereby a verb is derived from a noun (e.g., brush) or a noun is derived from a verb (e.g., taste) is called zero-derivation. Some theorists argue that this covert conversion results in greater degree of morphological complexity compared with non-derived forms (Marchand, 1969). Others assert that neither verbs nor nouns are derived from each other and that there is a semantic...
Fritz Günther
(University of Tübingen)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
While some compounds, such as shorebird, are semantically transparent, others, such as ladybird, are semantically opaque. Typically, this semantic transparency (ST) has been operationalized from a relatedness perspective, where ST depends on the relation between a compound meaning and the meanings of its constituents as independent units. However, such an approach falls short in capturing the...
Eddy Cavalli
(Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Developmental dyslexia is characterized by impairments in reading fluency and spelling that persist into adulthood. Here, we hypothesized that high-achieving adult dyslexics (i.e., university students with a history of dyslexia) possibly managed to cope with these deficits by relying to a greater extent on morphological information than do non-impaired adult readers. We used...
Alexandre Nikolaev
(University of Eastern Finland)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
This study discusses the recognition of Finnish nominal base forms in relation to their paradigmatic complexity (stem allomorphy). As has previously been shown by Nikolaev et al. (2014), response latencies to monomorphemic nouns differ depending on the number of their possible stem allomorphs. Using the single word lexical decision experiment, we presented monomorphemic nouns from three...
Natalia Slioussar
(HSE, Moscow, & St.Petersburg State University),
Svetlana Alexeeva
(St.Petersburg State University)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
We present a masked priming lexical decision experiment on Russian with substitution orthographic neighbors. All primes were real nouns, half of the targets were nonce nouns. Four factors were manipulated: whether the prime was a neighbor of the target (experimental vs. control conditions); whether the prime was a nominative singular (primary) form or an oblique form (Russian has six cases);...
Bilal Kirkici
(Middle East Technical University)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
False cognates are lexical items that display overlapping orthographic and/or phonological properties in two languages but little or no semantic similarity. Studies investigating the processing of false cognates have predominantly disregarded the effect of morphology (cf. Janke & Kolokonte, 2015). Additionally, studies on the processing of (false) cognates have almost exclusively dwelt on...
Laura Anna Ciaccio
(Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Several masked priming experiments have investigated native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing of complex words. While studies on L1 have consistently shown priming effects for morphologically related, but not for orthographically related pairs (for a review, see Amenta & Crepaldi 2012), those on L2 have found effects for both (Heyer & Clahsen 2015). This suggests that while masked...
Amy Goodwin Davies
(University of Pennsylvania),
Robert Wilder
(University of Pennsylvania)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
A major issue in lexical processing concerns the interplay between episodic (e.g., voice) and abstract components (e.g., morphological identity) of spoken words. Some research (Goldinger 1996) highlights episodic components while others advocate hybrid models combining both types (Pierrehumbert 2006).
Kouider & Dupoux 2009 (K&D) examine the time-course of abstract versus episodic effects....
Maya Yablonski
(Bar Ilan University)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Morphological processing is an essential component in reading, but the white matter underpinnings of this skill are largely unknown. We analyzed the relationship between morphological measures, assessed behaviorally in adult English readers, and microstructural properties of white matter pathways identified using diffusion MRI (dMRI). Morphological processing was assessed using the morpheme...
Christos Pliatsikas
(School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading)
6/24/17, 2:40 PM
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides a valuable window into how the brain functions, with the particular benefit of allowing us to localise the source of cognitive processes in the brain with millimetre precision. However, and despite its widespread use in cognitive neuroscience, the use of MRI (structural or functional) in neurolinguistics, and particularly in the study of morphology,...
Alina Leminen
(Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki)
6/24/17, 3:00 PM
Language-related processes in the brain are known to unfold within tens of milliseconds. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) directly registers the magnetic field created by electrical activity of masses of neurons. The magnetic field is measured on the millisecond scale, without being distorted by e.g., the skull as extensively as electroencephalography (EEG). In addition, the brain activity is...
Eva Smolka
(Universität Konstanz)
6/24/17, 3:20 PM
Electroencephalography (EEG) and the derived event-related potentials (ERPs) provide an important means to study the time-course of brain functions in high temporal resolution without referring to overt behavioral responses.
This talk will review the available literature on morphological processing with EEG, including studies on the processing of inflections, derivations, and compounds....
Melanie Bell
(Anglia Ruskin University)
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
Recently, entropy measures based on the relational structure of English compounds have been used in studies of semantic transparency and lexical decision times. Pham & Baayen (2013) show that the entropy of semantic relations in the modifier family is negatively correlated with semantic transparency. Schmidtke et al. (2015) find that the relational entropy for individual compounds is...
