Morphology in Language Processin
Donderdag 5 juli 2007 00:00
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The words-and-rules model (Pinker 1999, Pinker & Ullman 2002) claims that our mind/brain processes employs two complementary systems for language processing and acquisition: a combinatorial (rule-based) system that is sensitive to symbolic categories and treats all members of a given category equally, and an associative system that extracts probabilistic contingencies, e.g. frequency distributions and similarity clusters, from the input. These two systems are said to be used not only for language but also for other domains of cognition and learning. Much previous research on words and rules comes from the study of regular and irregular inflection, and there is indeed a considerable body of psycholinguistic evidence for the distinctions posited by the words-and-rules model from child language acquisition, adult language processing, brain-imaging and event-related potentials, and languagedisorders. From a linguistic perspective, however, the distinction between regular and irregular inflection is a relatively crude one, and one wonders how we process morphologically complex words that involve more subtle distinctions, a question that my colleagues and I have recently investigated using psycholinguistic experimentation. In this talk, I will discuss results from these experiments covering a range of morphological processes (e.g. stem allomorphy, inflectional paradigms, derivational processes, compounding). I will argue that morphological notions and concepts are not only useful descriptive tools for linguists, but also contribute to a better understanding of human language processing.
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- Wie:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen
- Wat:
- CSCA Lectures
- Waar:
- Tinbergenzaal (KNAW), Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam
- Wanneer:
- 5 juli om 20:00
- Kosten:
- geen