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Fermin Moscoso Del Prado Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • semantic density and past tense formation in three Germanic Languages
    Language, 2005
    Co-Authors: Harald R Baayen, Fermin Moscoso Del Prado Martin
    Abstract:

    It is widely believed that the difference between regular and irregular verbs is restricted to form. This study questions that belief. We report a series of lexical statistics showing that irregular verbs cluster in denser regions in semantic space. Compared to regular verbs, irregular verbs tend to have more semantic neighbors that in turn have relatively many other semantic neighbors that are morphologically irregular. We show that this greater semantic density for irregulars is reflected in association norms, familiarity ratings, visual lexical-decision latencies, and word-naming latencies. Meta-analyses of the materials of two neuroimaging studies show that in these studies, regularity is confounded with differences in semantic density. Our results challenge the hypothesis of the supposed formal encapsulation of rules of inflection and support lines of research in which sensitivity to probability is recognized as intrinsic to human language.

Harald R Baayen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • semantic density and past tense formation in three Germanic Languages
    Language, 2005
    Co-Authors: Harald R Baayen, Fermin Moscoso Del Prado Martin
    Abstract:

    It is widely believed that the difference between regular and irregular verbs is restricted to form. This study questions that belief. We report a series of lexical statistics showing that irregular verbs cluster in denser regions in semantic space. Compared to regular verbs, irregular verbs tend to have more semantic neighbors that in turn have relatively many other semantic neighbors that are morphologically irregular. We show that this greater semantic density for irregulars is reflected in association norms, familiarity ratings, visual lexical-decision latencies, and word-naming latencies. Meta-analyses of the materials of two neuroimaging studies show that in these studies, regularity is confounded with differences in semantic density. Our results challenge the hypothesis of the supposed formal encapsulation of rules of inflection and support lines of research in which sensitivity to probability is recognized as intrinsic to human language.

Ellen Gurman Bard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • determiner selection in romance Languages evidence from french
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 2010
    Co-Authors: Alice Foucart, Holly P Branigan, Ellen Gurman Bard
    Abstract:

    : Determiner selection requires the retrieval of the noun's syntactic features (e.g., gender) and sometimes of its phonological features. Miozzo and Caramazza (1999) argued that the selection of determiners in Germanic Languages is more straightforward than in Romance Languages because it is not dependent on the phonological properties of the following word. In the present study, we used the picture-word interference paradigm to investigate the dependency of the determiner on the noun's features in French. In 3 experiments, we found a gender congruency effect at +200 stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), indicating that participants were slower to produce the name of a picture (determiner + noun) when the picture-word pair was incongruent in gender than when it was congruent. We failed to replicate this effect at 0 SOA, in line with previous studies (Alario & Caramazza, 2002). Our results suggest that the features involved in determiner selection are not language specific but rather are specific to the determiner system.

Adeline Patard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • when tense and aspect convey modality reflections on the modal uses of past tenses in romance and Germanic Languages
    Journal of Pragmatics, 2014
    Co-Authors: Adeline Patard
    Abstract:

    This paper investigates the connection between past tense and modality in six Romance and Germanic Languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, English and German). I first argue for an aspecto-temporal definition of imperfects and preterits based on the notion of 'reference point' (R) and I suggest that the different interpretations of past tenses (including the modal ones) reflect specific instantiations of R as 'topic time', 'aspectual vantage point' or 'epistemic evaluation'. Second, I offer a classification and analysis of the modal uses of the imperfects and preterits observed in the Languages under investigation. Finally, I expand on the idea that the modal interpretations of past tenses correspond to pragmatic inferences that are being conventionalised and mirror the stages of 'bridging contexts' and 'switch contexts' described in Heine's (2002) model for semantic change.

Thomas Berg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • phonological processing in a syllable timed language with pre final stress evidence from spanish speech error data
    Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
    Co-Authors: Thomas Berg
    Abstract:

    Abstract In previous studies on English and German slips-of-the-tongue, it was shown that consonants at the beginning of words are more susceptible to malfunction than in any other position and that segments belonging to stressed syllables are more vulnerable than those in unstressed syllables. An in-depth analysis of a large corpus of errors reveals that both of these empirical claims cannot be replicated for Spanish. In the Spanish language, it is true that onset errors outnumber coda errors as in German and English, but nonword-initial, syllable-initial substitutions are found to be more common than word-initial ones. Furthermore, segmental slips-of-the-tongue occur with chance frequency in stressed and unstressed syllables. Both findings are not a trivial processing consequence of some structural particularity of Spanish. These results question the validity of processing models that have been proposed to account for data from the Germanic Languages. Two hypotheses are discussed: (1) The stability of w...