Human language has evolved on a biological substrate with phylogenetic roots deep in the primate lineage. Here, we describe a functional analogy to a common morphological process in human speech, affixation, in the alarm calls of free-ranging adult Campbell's monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli campbelli). We found that male alarm calls are composed of an acoustically variable stem, which can be f...

Cross-linguistically, prefixes and suffixes differ in both frequency and in phonological behavior. These differences could plausibly have their source in listeners’ subjective perceptual experiences of prefixes and suffixes, an idea that we pursued using a noise-rating task in Spanish. Participants heard minimally-different Spanish words such asme patea ‘s/he kicks me’ versus patéame ‘kick me’,...

This study is aimed at (1) describing the process of word formation using al-ziyaadah and affixation in Bugis Arabic, (2) revealing meaning forming a (3) analyzing similarities differences substances produced by affixations Arabic. The research applied library linguistic approach. primary data was collected identified through textbook; then, types affixes both languages were analyzed. forms tha...

The aim of this journal article is to study recursivity in terms of morphological process feeding in the formation of Old English, thus dealing with the relationship that holds among the major lexical creation processes of affixation (suffixation and prefixation), compounding and zero-derivation. The analysis is based on the ascription of each of the predicates to one of the morphological proce...

Formosan languages are extremely diverse at all linguistic levels, from phonology to morphology to syntax. In fact, the Formosan languages are the most diverse within the entire Austronesian language family. This great linguistic diversity indicates a great time depth for an early settlement on the island, so as to make Taiwan the prime candidate for Austronesian homeland and the center of Aust...

It is well known that the phonological form of a word can depend on its morphological structure. In serial approaches, this follows naturally from the fact that words have derivational histories: morphologically complex words undergo successive levels of phonology as they are constructed. A crucial distinction is typically made, however, between derivational and inflectional morphology. Whereas...

This paper introduces a language identification approach using syllable structure information. We also review and compare other approaches. Most of these approaches use linguistic information for language identification. The information used for language identification is Malay affixation information, English vocabulary list, alphabet ngram, grapheme n-gram. The approach using syllable structur...