Lexical and Postlexical Word Formation

Words in context: ERPs and the lexical/postlexical distinction

The Psychological Reality of Word Formation and Lexical Stress Rules

Word Formation and the Validation of Lexical Resources

In the framework of Word Manager (WM), morphological dictionaries are produced by the classification of lexemes in terms of a rule database. The intricate structure of the resulting lexical resources, conceived primarily for flexible use, also offers novel opportunities for the validation of the lexical specification. Many of the inconsistencies and errors encountered in lexical specification i...

The interplay between lexical and postlexical tonal phenomena and the prosodic structure in Masan/Changwon Korean

In some languages, such as Korean and Japanese, some theoretically interesting postlexical tonal phenomena have been observed. The phenomena include, for example, downstep and edge tones in Tokyo Japanese (e.g. Kawakami 1961b, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988) and downstep and upstep in Northern Gyeongsang Korean (Kenstowicz and Sohn 1997, Jun et al. 2006). Also, some phenomena have shown the int...

Word Recognition and Lexical Access

The recovery of meaning from any sentence (spoken or written) requires more than a consideration of the meanings of the individual words it contains. Words, though, are the building blocks of comprehension: it is the properties they represent that provide the primary data the language processing system is to use in computing sentence meanings. The processes responsible for the recovery of the p...