Inflectional morphology and word meaning: Orthogonal or co-implicative cognitive domains?

Kostić, Aleksandar Đ.; Marković, Tanja; Baucal, Aleksandar

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“…The third consequence arises from the sensitivity to graded semantic similarity between paradigms, as indicated by the opposite influences of the morphologically closer and more distant paradigms to which a compound word belongs. This is also in accordance with the converging evidence for the graded influence of semantic similarity in inflectional (Baayen & Moscoso del Prado Martín, 2003;Kostić et al, 2003;Ramscar, 2002) and derivational processes (e.g. Feldman, Barac-Cikoja, & Kostić, 2002;Feldman, Pastizzo, Soltano, & Francis, in press;Moscoso del Prado Martín, 2003).…”

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“…In summary, our approach succeeds in extending the ideas of Kostić (1991Kostić ( , 1995Kostić ( , 2001Kostić ( , 2003 and Kostić et al (2003) from inflectional to derivational morphology and compounds while at the same time using a more standard measure of the amount of information carried by a paradigm. Nevertheless, further refinements of the technique are anticipated to account for the fine-grained sensitivity to semantic relatedness as revealed by the semantic constraints on morphological family size and inflectional morphology.…”

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“…1 Kostić (1991Kostić ( , 1995Kostić ( , 2001Kostić ( , 2003 and Kostić et al (2003) addressed the relevance of token-and type-based counts for inflectional processing using an information theoretical framework. In a series of lexical decision experiments with Serbian inflected nouns, he demonstrated that the amount of information carried by an inflected noun form is inversely proportional to its processing latency.…”

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In this study we introduce an information-theoretical formulation of the emergence of type-and token-based effects in morphological processing. We describe a probabilistic measure of the informational complexity of a word, its information residual, which encompasses the combined influences of the amount of information contained by the target word and the amount of information carried by its nested morphological paradigms. By means of re-analyses of previously published data on Dutch words we show that the information residual outperforms the combination of traditional token-and type-based counts in predicting response latencies in visual lexical decision, and at the same time provides a parsimonious account of inflectional, derivational, and compounding processes. q

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“…The insignificant effect of Case (in interaction with Relative Entropy) in the model for the simulated latencies is expected, given that we have no evidence suggesting that the distributional properties of the nominative case forms are very different from those of the oblique case forms. Since the nominative case carries the lowest number of functions and meanings compared to the other case endings (Kostić et al, 2003), and since in our model the different functions and meanings of the cases are not specified, with all cases being treated equal, no special advantage for the nominative can emerge.…”

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An amorphous model for morphological processing in visual comprehension based on naive discriminative learning.

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A two-layer symbolic network model based on the equilibrium equations of the Rescorla-Wagner model (Danks, 2003) is proposed. The study starts by presenting two experiments in Serbian, which reveal for sentential reading the inflectional paradigmatic effects previously observed by Milin, Filipović Durdević, and Moscoso del Prado Martín (2009) for unprimed lexical decision. The empirical results are successfully modeled without having to assume separate representations for inflections or data structures such as inflectional paradigms. In the next step, the same naive discriminative learning approach is pitted against a wide range of effects documented in the morphological processing literature. Frequency effects for complex words as well as for phrases (Arnon & Snider, 2010) emerge in the model without the presence of whole-word or whole-phrase representations. Family size effects Moscoso del Prado Martín, Bertram, Häikiö, Schreuder, & Baayen, 2004) emerge in the simulations across simple words, derived words, and compounds, without derived words or compounds being represented as such. It is shown that for pseudo-derived words no special morpho-orthographic segmentation mechanism as posited by Rastle, Davis, and New (2004) is required. The model also replicates the finding of Plag and Baayen (2009), that, on average, words with more productive affixes elicit longer response latencies, while at the same time predicting that productive affixes afford faster response latencies for new words. English phrasal paradigmatic effects modulating isolated word reading are reported and modelled, showing that the paradigmatic effects characterizing Serbian case inflection have cross-linguistic scope.

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“…A person' s name like Martti occurs mostly in nominative singular. Same sort of analysis is given by Kosti et al (2003) for Serbian, although they seem to be hesitant about the semantic origins of the phenomenon. We shall not explore the semantic factors of case distribution any deeper, but analyze the distribution of cases on morphological level only.…”

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Restricted inflectional form generation in management of morphological keyword variation

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Inflectional morphology and word meaning: Orthogonal or co-implicative cognitive domains?

Cited by 27 publications

References 6 publications

Putting the bits together: an information theoretical perspective on morphological processing

Putting the bits together: an information theoretical perspective on morphological processing

An amorphous model for morphological processing in visual comprehension based on naive discriminative learning.

Restricted inflectional form generation in management of morphological keyword variation

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