How the brain composes morphemes into meaning

Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes

A Linguistic Analysis of the Inconsistencies in the Meaning of Some -er Suffix Morphemes

English like any other language is rich by means of arbitrary, conventional, symbols which lend it to lot of inconsistencies in spelling, phonology, syntax, and morphology. The research examines the irregularities prevalent in the structure and meaning of some ‘er’ lexical items in English and its implication to vocabulary acquisition. It centers its investigation on the derivational suffix ‘er...

How "you" makes meaning.

"You" is one of the most common words in the English language. Although it typically refers to the person addressed ("How are you?"), "you" is also used to make timeless statements about people in general ("You win some, you lose some."). Here, we demonstrate that this ubiquitous but understudied linguistic device, known as "generic-you," has important implications for how people derive meaning...

Mind , Meaning , and the Brain

PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH over the past two decades demonstrates the power of the neurobiological paradigm. However, this progress is connected with a restricted field of vision typical of any scientific paradigm. The psychiatrist should be aware of this restriction, because, unlike the brain scientist, he deals with patients, not with brains. The restricted view may be described by the terms ...

Morphemes and Lexemes versus “ Morphemes or Lexemes ? ”

More than a century after the first linguistic definition of the notion of morpheme by Baudoin de Courtenay (1895) and Sweet (1876), an ever-lasting debate – which I shall refer here as the “Morpheme or Lexeme” (M or L) debate – on the nature of linguistic bricks is still going on. Since a by-product of this debate is terminological confusion in the use of the four notions of morpheme, lexeme, ...