International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc)

Session

Symposium 3 -- Theoretical linguistics

Jun 24, 2017, 9:30 AM

Lecture Hall Paolo Budinich (SISSA Main Campus)

85. Vague and vacuous morphological decomposition

Adam Albright (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

6/24/17, 9:30 AM

Symposium 3 --Theoretical linguistics

Talk

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...

86. From grammar induction to learning and processing

Sebastian Bank (University of Leipzig)

6/24/17, 9:50 AM

Symposium 3 --Theoretical linguistics

Talk

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...

88. Storing morphologically complex forms: convergent evidence from grammar and psycholinguistics

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)

6/24/17, 10:10 AM

Symposium 3 --Theoretical linguistics

Talk

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...

87. Beyond affix-stripping: Generalisation and processing of 'pure morphology'

João Veríssimo (University of Potsdam)

6/24/17, 10:30 AM

Symposium 3 --Theoretical linguistics

Talk

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...