Words associated with perceptually salient, highly imageable concepts are learned earlier in life, more accurately recalled, and more rapidly named than abstract words (R. W. Brown, 1976; Walker & Hulme, 1999). Theories accounting for this concreteness effect have focused exclusively on semantic properties of word referents. A novel possibility is that word structure may also contribute to the ...

The article contributes to the typology of structural factors constraining argument realization in nominalizations, focussing on English –er-nominals. It first reappraises the conclusions of earlier studies on when –er-nominals can express arguments. Derivations disallowing argument linking are treated as semantically and structurally parallel to nominal compounds, and their argument-structural...

This paper focuses on the automatic segmentation of inflectional affixes of the Kazakh Language (KL) on the basis of studying the corpus of KL. Kazakh is an agglutinative language with word structures formed by productive affixation of derivational and inflectional suffixes to stems. Based on the analysis of the configuration of inflectional affixes, it firstly constructs the Finite-State Autom...

This paper examines two domains in which phonology may exert an influence on morphology: suppletive allomorph selection and affix ordering. Cross-linguistic facts about both phenomena are examined and ultimately argued to provide evidence for a phonology-morphology interface in which morphology precedes phonology at each level of the grammar in a cyclic-type approach, and phonological condition...

(TD)-deletion is a well-known variable phonological process subject to the influence of both external social factors and internal structural constraints, including phonetic environmental and morphosyntactic effects. Its profile of variation has been widely investigated in American English dialects. However, it interacts with another grammatical process -the affixation of the regular Pasttense m...

We investigated interactions between morphological complexity and grammaticality on electrophysiological markers of grammatical processing during reading. Our goal was to determine whether morphological complexity and stimulus grammaticality have independent or additive effects on the P600 event-related potential component. Participants read sentences that were either well-formed or grammatical...

published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Plag, Ingo. Word-formation in English / Ingo Plag. p. cm. – (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and indexes. Contents Preface page xi Abbreviations and notational conve...

Language occupies a very crucial role for humans in this life, especially terms of communication with other humans. One the language skills used to communicate indirectly is writing skill. In world writing, mistakes have become natural thing. Therefore, study aims improve and describe various errors Indonesian at phonological morphological levels story synopsis text by students class V SD Neger...

l. Intruductory remarks and abstract The contribution reports results from about four years of research about German word derivation. The aim of the project is twofold: to find out facts about word derivation, especially about the productivity of "open" derivation patterns, and to test the utility of the computer as a tool in linguistic research of this type, the latter being planned as a demon...

Williams (1981) and others (e.g., Kiparsky 1983; Pinker & Prince 1987) have noted that new verbs which are semantically extended from nouns take the regular past-tense (as in the baseball sense of fly ), while verbs extended from an irregular verb inherit the irregular past-tense marker, as happens with compounding and affixation (e.g. oversleep ). This type of data has motivated the view that ...