The Construction Morphology Analysis of Chinese Word Formation

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco; Basciano, Bianca

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“…12 Modern Chinese commonly adopts disyllabic/2-character word form to reduce the number of compatible words (e.g., when "sun" is paired with "flower" to form "sunflower," the pronunciation /ˈflaʊ.ɚz/ is easily discernible as "flower" instead of "flour"). 13 Moreover, modern Chinese characters exist in >16 forms of radical spatial configurations, with the number of strokes ranging from 1 to 64 per character. 14,15 Given the large differences in orthographic structures, we hypothesized that the dysgraphia patterns in patients with PPA differ between English and Chinese language users.…”

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Dysgraphia Phenotypes in Native Chinese Speakers With Primary Progressive Aphasia

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Background and Objectives:To date, most primary progressive aphasia (PPA) literature is based on English language users. Naturally, linguistic features that vary from English, such as logographic writing systems, are under-investigated. The present study characterized the dysgraphia phenotypes of PPA patients who write in Chinese and investigated their diagnostic utility in classifying PPA variants.Methods:This study recruited 40 PPA participants and 20 cognitively-normal participants from San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. We measured dictation accuracy using the Chinese Language Assessment for PPA (CLAP) 60-character orthographic dictation test and examined the occurrence of various writing errors across the study groups. We also performed voxel-based morphometry analysis to identify the grey matter regions correlated with dictation accuracy and prevalence of writing errors.Results:All PPA groups produced significantly less accurate writing responses than the control group, and no significant differences in dictation accuracy were noted among the PPA variants. With a cut-score of 36 out of 60 in the CLAP orthographic dictation task, the test achieved sensitivity and specificity of 90% and 95% in identifying Chinese PPA participants from controls. In addition to a character frequency effect, dictation accuracy was also affected by homophone density and the number of strokes in svPPA and lvPPA groups. Dictation accuracy was correlated with volumetric changes over left ventral temporal cortices, regions known to be critical for orthographic long-term memory. Individuals with semantic variant PPA frequently presented with phonologically plausible errors at lexical level; logopenic variant PPA patients showed higher preponderance towards visual and stroke errors; and nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA patients commonly exhibited compound word and radical errors. The prevalence of phonologically plausible, visual and compound word errors was negatively correlated with cortical volume over the bilateral temporal regions, left temporo-occipital area, and bilateral orbitofrontal gyri, respectively.Discussion:The findings demonstrate the potential role of the orthographic dictation task as a screening tool and PPA classification indicator in Chinese language users. Each PPA variant had specific Chinese dysgraphia phenotypes that vary from those previously reported in English PPA patients, highlighting the importance of language diversity in PPA.

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“…For (39), it was a schema proposed by Booij for Germanic languages such as English, German, and Dutch. Similar schemas are also proposed by Booij and Hüning (2014) for expressions containing bound forms in German and Dutch, and by Arcodia (2011) and Arcodia and Basciano (2018) for those in Chinese. Thanks to this kind of research in CxM, it has become easier to discuss the similarities of compounds and the expressions containing bound forms in different types of languages.…”

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A Construction Morphology Approach to Neoclassical Compounds and the Function of the Linking Vowel

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2024

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The morphological status of combining-forms (CF) (bio-, -logy, etc.) used in neoclassical compounds (biology, bioscience, etc.) is a matter of debate in morphology. Some see them as having the same status as ordinary words, while others see them as having a special status and forming an independent category. This paper focuses on neoclassical compounds having basic and extended patterns. The former, biology type, is composed solely of CFs, while the latter contains ordinary words, i.e., free morphemes (FM), and is further classified into two categories: bioscience type and hamburgerology type. This paper aims to explain the relationship among those subtypes of neoclassical compounds while capturing their extension processes within the framework of Construction Morphology (CxM). In particular, we outline a novel analysis of those subtypes of neoclassical compounds using “schemas” and “constructional idioms” following the literature regarding CxM.

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“…Again, a network model proves useful, as the loanblend pattern can be linked "downward" to individual words and contrasted "sideways" with the competing (and here undesirable) sister pattern. Similar situations, in which a compound pattern develops local productivity for a certain group of left-or right-hand members and with a specific meaning, are discussed-among others-for Akan by Appah ( 2017), for Chinese by Arcodia & Basciano (2018), for French by Radimský (2020), and for German by Gaeta & Angster (2019).…”

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“…A construction-morphological treatment of headedness and exocentricity in compounds is offered by, among others, Arcodia (2012) for Italian and Vietnamese, Bagasheva (2015) for Bulgarian, Appah (2017) for the Niger-Congo language Akan, Arcodia (2011) and Arcodia & Basciano (2018) for Chinese, and Cetnarowska (2020) for Polish. These studies show that a construction-based perspective offers helpful solutions.…”

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“…Construction-based accounts of affixoids have appeared for, among other languages, German and Dutch (e.g., Michel 2013, Hüning & Booij 2014, Hartmann 2019, Italian (e.g., Masini & Micheli 2020), Hungarian (Kenesei 2007), Chinese (Arcodia 2011, Arcodia & Basciano 2018, and Aivaliot Greek (Ralli 2019). The particular challenge posed by such formations is their inbetween status: They resemble compounds on the one hand and affixations on the other.…”

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Advances in Morphological Theory: Construction Morphology and Relational Morphology

Audring

2022

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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In recent years, construction-based approaches to morphology have gained ground in the research community. This framework is characterized by the assumption that the mental lexicon is extensive and richly structured, containing not only a large number of stored words but also a wide variety of generalizations in the form of schemas. This review explores two construction-based theories, Construction Morphology and Relational Morphology. After outlining the basic theoretical architecture, the article presents an array of recent applications of a construction-based approach to morphological phenomena in various languages. In addition, it offers reflections on challenges and opportunities for further research. The review highlights those aspects of the theory that have proved particularly helpful in accommodating both the regularities and the quirks that are typical of the grammar of words. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 8 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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The Construction Morphology Analysis of Chinese Word Formation

Cited by 9 publications

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Dysgraphia Phenotypes in Native Chinese Speakers With Primary Progressive Aphasia

Dysgraphia Phenotypes in Native Chinese Speakers With Primary Progressive Aphasia

A Construction Morphology Approach to Neoclassical Compounds and the Function of the Linking Vowel

Advances in Morphological Theory: Construction Morphology and Relational Morphology

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