Sina Bosch
(University of Potsdam, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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...
Carina Pinto
(CLUL)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
We 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...
Isidora Gatarić
(Social Sciences and Computing, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
6/22/17, 3:20 PM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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...