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Sina Bosch (University of Potsdam, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Varvara Magomedova (Stony Brook University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterIn 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...Go to contribution page
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Basak Karatas (University of Maryland), Kira Gor (University of Maryland)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterThis 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...Go to contribution page
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Emmanuel Cartier (LIPN, Université Paris 13)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterEvery 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...Go to contribution page
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Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford), Swetlana Schuster (University of Oxford)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterWithin 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...Go to contribution page
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Jana Reifegerste (Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, Germany)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterUnusual 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...Go to contribution page
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Carina Pinto (CLUL)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterWe may find several studies claiming that morphological structure plays an important role in word processing. In this paper, supported by the observation of written derived words processing, we intend to demonstrate that complex words display different degrees of complexity, depending on morphological and semantic features. We’ve performed two experiments, on adults and 4th grade children. Our...Go to contribution page
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Isidora Gatarić (Social Sciences and Computing, University of Belgrade, Serbia)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterAccording 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...Go to contribution page
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Filiz Rızaoğlu (Pamukkale University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterIn 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...Go to contribution page
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Francesca Carota (Humboldt University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterGrammatical 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...Go to contribution page
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Raymond Bertram (University of Turku), Rosa Salmela (Åbo Akademi University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterFinnish 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...Go to contribution page
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Hannah-Leigh Nicholls (Coventry University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterChildren 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...Go to contribution page
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Natalia Slioussar (HSE, Moscow, & St.Petersburg State University), Pavel Shilin (St.Petersburg State University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterMany 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...Go to contribution page
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Julia Carden (University of Buenos Aires)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterHow 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...Go to contribution page
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Beinan Zhou (University of Oxford), Sandra Kotzor (University of Oxford; Oxford Brookes University)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterSome 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...Go to contribution page
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Marina Oganyan (University of Washington)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterThis 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...Go to contribution page
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Vera Heyer (University of Braunschweig)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterDespite 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 ...Go to contribution page
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Sanja Radman (Department of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterSimple 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...Go to contribution page
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Francesca Franzon (Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterMorphological 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...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Miguel Lázaro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)6/22/17, 3:20 PMFreely Contributed PaperPosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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