Complex words can be seen as combinations of elementary units, decomposable into stems and affixes according to morphological rules. Alternatively, complex forms may be stored as single lexical entries and accessed as whole forms. This study uses an event-related potential brain response capable of indexing both whole-form retrieval and combinatorial processing, the Mismatch Negativity (MMN), t...

New words are constantly entering language. When a new word is formed by the combination of existing morphemes, it is expected to follow languagespecific structural patterns called selectional restrictions. If a new word follows these restrictions, then it can be considered to be morphologically legal, and if it violates these restrictions, then it can be said to be morphologically illegal. For...

This study is aimed at explaining morpho-lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns in Domani, as two basic features that are related to the lexicon grammar of this substrate, contact, secret endangered Romani dialect. The data was obtained by conducting face-to-face interviews with Doms living Van Ağrı-Doğubayazıt regions Turkey making use their oral narratives. recordings made between 2017 2019 ov...

We explored morphological decomposition in reading, the locus in the reading process in which it takes place and its nature, comparing different types of morphemes. We assessed these questions through the analysis of letter position errors in readers with letter position dyslexia (LPD). LPD is a selective impairment to letter position encoding in the early stage of word reading, which results i...

The hypothesis that inflectional affixes use a restricted set of phonemes and that these are the less marked phonemes of the language is discussed and tested on the verbal affixes in a sample of twenty-three maximally unrelated languages. The results show that the tendency for languages to use only a smaller subset of their phonemes in verbal inflection than would be predicted by chance is only...

Affix knowledge plays an important role in visual word recognition, but little is known about how it is acquired. The authors present a new method of investigating the acquisition of affixes in which participants are trained on novel affixes presented in novel word contexts (e.g., sleepnept). Experiment 1 investigated the role of semantic information on affix acquisition by comparing a form-lea...

In standard generative approaches, word-formation rules contain, among other things, information on the semantics of the suffix and the syntactic category (or word class) of possible bases. Based on the general assumption that word-class specification of the input is a crucial ingredient of derivational morphology, far-reaching claims have been made. For example, the Unitary Base Hypothesis (Ar...

In the paper we describe enriching Czech WordNet with the derivational relations that in highly inflectional languages like Czech form typical derivational nests (or subnets). Derivational relations are mostly of semantic nature and their regularity in Czech allows us to add them to the WordNet almost automatically. For this purpose we have used the derivational version of morphological analyze...