Derivational morphology links are created for the Wordnet Bahasa, a combined Indonesian and Malay online lexical dictionary (Nurril Hirfana, Suerya, & Bond, 2011). The focus was to link root words to affixed words as affixation is one of the more apparent word formation processes in Bahasa Melayu. MorphInd, an Indonesian morphological analyser (Larasati, Kubon, & Zeman, 2011), is used to breakd...

OBJECTIVES Individuals with nonfluent agrammatic aphasia show impaired production and comprehension of time reference via verbal morphology. However, cross-linguistic findings to date suggest inconsistent evidence as to whether tense processing in general is impaired or time reference to the past is selectively difficult in this population. This study examined production and comprehension of ti...

Anchoring constraints were originally proposed for explaining the special faithfulness to edges, both in the domain of Input-Output correspondence (e.g. Benua 1998) and Base-Reduplicant correspondence (e.g. Hendricks 1998). In Optimality Theory framework (Prince & Smolensky 1993), this paper proposes two sets of anchoring constraints, Existential and Universal ANCHORING for edges and head, requ...

The speech of individuals with agrammatism is generally characterized by omission or substitution of grammatical morphemes, a high noun-to-verb ratio and a lack of complex sentence structures. It is generally agreed upon that agrammatic speakers show a highly selective pattern of impairment of functional categories (Arabatzi & Edwards 2000, 2002; Bastiaanse 1995; Bastiaanse & Thompson 2003; Fri...

This chapter provides an overview of a wide range of non-concatenative (nonreduplicative) phenomena in morphology focusing on a typological categorization.1 The definition of non-concatenative morphology is not uncontroversial. Kurisu (2001: 2) considers non-concatenative morphology to be observed in cases where the phonological instantiation of a morpheme cannot be demarcated in an output repr...

Evidence from event-related potentials has an important role to play in refining current models of inflectional morphology. Here, we present ERP data regarding the English past tense, using an immediate-priming design that frequently has been used in both healthy and neuropsychological populations (Tyler et al., 2002). The majority of extant ERP studies of inflectional morphology have adopted e...

The current study focused on the production of fake geminates across different boundary types in English to investigate the hypothesis that word-internal fake geminates may differ from those that arise across a word boundary. In this study, word-internal geminates arising from affixation, and described as either assimilated or concatenated, were matched to fake geminates arising from sequences ...

The Acquisition of Morphophonology Under a Derivational Theory: A Basic Framework and Simulation Results Ewan Dunbar Department of Linguistics University of Toronto 2008 Since Rumelhart and McClelland 1986, the alternations found in the simple morphophonology of the English past tense have been run through numerous learning algorithms. These algorithms generally perform well at learning these v...

This paper examines the effects of morpheme boundaries on intergestural timing, and demonstrates that low-level phonetic realization is influenced by morphological structure, i.e. compounding and affixation. It reports two experiments, one using electromagnetic midsagittal articulography (EMA) and one electropalatography (EPG), examining Korean data. The results of the EMA study show that inter...

Rules, and exceptions to such rules, are ubiquitous in many domains, including language. Here we used simple artificial grammars to investigate the influence of 2 factors on the acquisition of rules and their exceptions, namely type frequency (the relative numbers of different exceptions to different regular items) and token frequency (the number of exception tokens relative to the number of re...