This paper revives old descriptive data on Awa, a Papuan language of the Kainantu group. The tonal system was described in detail by Loving (1973), where he reports a series of toneless noun suffixes, falling into six classes depending on their tonal alternations when combined with a noun root. This paper demonstrates that the suffixes are best understood as carrying lexical tone; the alternati...

While in (1a) and (1b) -ic and -ity, and -less and -ness happily combine, the combination -less-ity is impossible. Similar sets of examples can be found in abundance and pose the question what exactly is responsible for such patterns. Basically three types of answers have been given in the pertinent literature. One group of scholars argues for the existence of lexical strata (e.g. Siegel 1974, ...

Recent studies have suggested that proficient bilinguals show morphological decomposition in the L2, but the question remains as to whether this process is modulated by the cognateness of the morphemic constituents of L2 words and by L2 proficiency. To answer this question was the main goal of the present research. For that purpose, a masked priming lexical decision task was conducted manipulat...

The paper presents an unsupervised and knowledge-free approach to compound splitting. Although the research is focused on German compounds, the method is expected to be extensible to other compounding languages. The approach is based on the annotated suffix tree (AST) method proposed and modified by Mirkin et al. To the best of our knowledge, annotated suffix trees have not yet been used for co...

This study investigates the relationship between word repetition, predictability from neighbouring words, and articulatory reduction in Dutch. For the seven most frequent words ending in the adjectival suffix -lijk, 40 occurrences were randomly selected from a large database of face-to-face conversations. Analysis of the selected tokens showed that the degree of articulatory reduction (as measu...

This eye-tracking study explores visual recognition of Dutch suffixed words (e.g., plaats+ing ‘‘placing”) embedded in sentential contexts, and provides new evidence on the interplay between storage and computation in morphological processing. We show that suffix length crucially moderates the use of morphological properties. In words with shorter suffixes, we observe a stronger effect of full-f...

In this study I present a comparative and historical analysis of ‘‘frequentative’’ Bantu verb-stem reduplication, many of whose variants have been described for a number of Eastern and Southern Bantu languages. While some languages have full-stem compounding, where the stem consists of the verb root plus any and all suffixes, others restrict the reduplicant to two syllables. Two questions are a...

Despite substantial scholarship relating to word structure (Anderson, 2018), for English affixes the relationship between productivity, genre, and second language (L2) learning remains unclear. Analysis of existing literature reveals that deadjectival noun suffixes (i.e., nouns derived from adjectives such as appropriacy or goodness) have been underexamined. To address this gap, we examine two ...

This paper considers whether the phonology of the lexical pitch accent of Kyungsang Korean is being maintained by younger innovative speakers. We examine the pitch-accent patterns of nouns with various suffixes by comparing the speech of innovative Kyungsang speakers to that of older conservative speakers. It will be shown that while innovative speakers maintain the underlying distinction in th...

7 ABSTRACT: Emerging High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is expected to be widely adopted in network applications for high definition devices and mobile terminals. Thus, construction of HEVC’s encryption schemes that maintain format compliance and bit rate of encrypted bit stream becomes an active security’s researches area. This paper presents a novel selective encryption technique for HEVC vi...