Magentoencephalographic Investigations of Morphological Identity and Irregularity
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ABsTRAcr This thesis addresses the longstanding debate in the psycholinguistics literature about the correct way to characterize the psychological status of morphological relatedness and irregular allomorphy. The model argued for here is one in which the mental lexicon consists of lexical roots (sound-meaning pairs that are arbitrary in the Saussurian sense, such as CAT: 'feline'<-*/kmt/) and functional morphemes (affixes such as the plural markers , that carry purely grammatical information). Complex words are assembled by the grammar out of these roots and affixes. We argue that this is true even for words like gw which don't clearly separate into two pieces, but are abstractly parallel to dha, which does. Evidence for this full, across the board decomposition model is provided in a series of priming experiments that use magnetoencephalography to measure the earliest stages of lexical processing. Both regular and irregular allomorphs of a root are shown to access their root equally. These results, then, are incompatible both with connectionist models which treat all morphological relatedness as similarity, and with dual mechanism models which argue that regular allomorphy and irregular allomorphy arise from completely different systems, and only regular allomorphy involves root activation and composition. In this model, morphological relatedness is argued to be an identity relation between various allomorphs of a single, shared root, and is therefore clearly distinguished from semantic and phonological relatedness, which merely involve similarity between the meaning, or form, of different roots. The experiments reported in this dissertation support this model: the neural responses evoked by identity are significantly distinct from the neural responses evoked by similarity. DEDICATION cli To my mother and father for giving me a name to grow into and live up to and be forever inspired by. czi' To Douglas Adams for first putting the idea in my head that mathematical modelling of biological systems could be the most beautiful music in the universe. Ce And to my sweet Dixie-bear, for fearlessly travelling with me on this journey, and always, always being up for a game offetch.
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