Kira Gor
(University of Maryland)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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...
Eva Viviani
(SISSA)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
Research suggests that letter strings are analysed in terms of their constituent morphemes early on during visual word identification, independently of their semantics—the brain sees DEAL and ER in DEALER, but also CORN and ER in CORNER (e.g, Rastle et al., 2004). Results are less clear as to whether non-native speakers carry out the same processing in the recognition of a foreign word (e.g.,...
Anastasia Chuprina
(School of linguistics, HSE, Moscow),
Natalia Slioussar
(School of linguistics, HSE, Moscow)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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...
Jeremy Law
(KU Leuven)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
This study examined processing of derivational morphology and its association with measures of morphological awareness and literacy outcomes in 30 Dutch speaking high-functioning dyslexics, defined as university students with a past diagnosis of dyslexia with age appropriate reading comprehension skills, and 30 age-matched Dutch speaking controls, matched for reading comprehension. A masked...
Anna Jessen
(University of Potsdam)
6/24/17, 10:50 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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
Freely Contributed Paper
Poster
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...
