Lexical parsability and morphological structure

• Main Authors: Ferro, Marcello, Marzi, Claudia, Pirrelli, Vito
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2013
• Subjects: 0; computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance; morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis

In the computational framework of Temporal Self-Organising Maps (TSOMs)Marcello Ferro, Claudia Marzi and Vito Pirrelli analyse in their paper Lexical parsability and morphological structure the emergence of morphological structure in lexical acquisition to provide an explanatory basis for both psycholinguistic and linguistic accounts of lexical parsability. Simulations of the incremental acquisition of German verb paradigms in different training conditions show the correlation between frequency of word forms and perception (or lack of perception) of their structure, suggesting that it is not possible to decouple representations from the processing operations defined over representations.