The present article examines whether derivational morphology shows evidence of an associative memory structure. A distributional analysis of stems of attested derivational forms revealed evidence of clustering around phonological properties (gangs) for all nonneutral affixes but only a few neutral affixes. Subjects' acceptability ratings for novel complex words revealed sensitivity to the gang ...

Abstract In this paper we offer an overview of the linguistic phenomena that have traditionally been handled by means zero affixes and theoretical debate around advantages disadvantages employing such null morphemes in modeling. While advantage positing is straightforward from empirical perspective (see inflectional syncretism affixless category change, among others), their legitimacy has contr...

Such a rich language resource like Princeton WordNet, containing linguistic information of different types (semantic, lexical, syntactic, derivational, dialectal, etc.), is a thesaurus which is worth both being used in various language-enabled applications and being explored in order to study a language. In this paper we show how we used Princeton WordNet version 3.0 to study the English affixe...

this paper studies derivation in scientific and colloquial varieties in persian, and seeks to determine the frequency and manner of this process in each of the above-mentioned varieties by scrutinizing and comparing a significant number of derived words. to do so, after collecting persian scientific and colloquial words and analyzing them, the following issues will be specified a) what kinds of...

a motivated derivational word is a word that its meaning is the result of the meaning of word stem and derivational affixes. in this paper, the hypothesis is tested that by the passage fo time,motivation would be reduced and for this purpose, four itinerary passages from present and four equal passages from 200 years before are chose to understand ,under comparisons and statistical consideratio...

This paper focuses on the automatic segmentation of inflectional affixes of the Kazakh Language (KL) on the basis of studying the corpus of KL. Kazakh is an agglutinative language with word structures formed by productive affixation of derivational and inflectional suffixes to stems. Based on the analysis of the configuration of inflectional affixes, it firstly constructs the Finite-State Autom...

This study investigates whether the acoustic durations of derivational affixes in Dutch are affected by the frequency of the word they occur in. In a word naming experiment, subjects were presented with a large number of words containing one of the affixes ge-, ver-, ont, or -lijk. Their responses were recorded on DAT tapes, and the durations of the affixes were measured using Automatic Speech ...

Sarhaddi Balochi dialect, a language variety of Western (Rakhshani) Balochi, employs derivation through affixation as one of its word formation processes. The purpose of this article is to present a synchronic description of the way(s) different derivational affixes function in making complex words in Sarhaddi Balochi as spoken in Granchin[1] district located about 35Kms to the southeast of Kha...