Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition

Andrea D. Sims is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University (USA). Her recent publications include Inflectional Defectiveness (CUP, 2015), and Understanding Morphology (co-authored, Routledge, 2ed 2010). She is co-editor of the journal Word Structure and serves on the editorial board of the journal Morphology. Adam Ussishkin is a Professor at the University of Arizona (USA). His research focuses on the structure of the lexicon, morphology, and phonology. He has published in Morphology, Language, The Mental Lexicon, and Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. He is also an associate editor for Language and Speech. Jeff Parker is an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University (USA). His research investigates inflection class systems from psycholinguistic, computational and typological perspectives. He has published in morphology journals such as Morphology and Word Structure, the psycholinguistic journal The Mental Lexicon, and the Slavic focused Slavic and East European Journal. Samantha Wray is an Instructor at Dartmouth College (USA). She focuses on spoken and written word processing for nonstandard dialects of Arabic, and other widely-spoken under-researched languages of the world, such as Tagalog. She also works on the creation and improvement of computational resources for under-resourced language varieties.

1. At the intersection of cognitive processes and linguistic diversity Andrea D. Sims, Adam Ussishkin, Jeff Parker and Samantha Wray; Part I. In What Ways Is Language Processing Tuned to the Morphological Structure of a Language?: 2. Tuning language processing mechanisms to a language's morphology without decomposition: The case of semantic transparency Laurie Beth Feldman and Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín; 3. Productivity effects on morphological processing in Maltese auditory word recognition Samantha Wray and Adam Ussishkin; 4. Phonotactic and morphological effects in the acceptability of pseudowords Jeremy M. Needle, Janet B. Pierrehumbert and Jennifer B. Hay; Part II. What ROLE DOES CUE INFORMATIVITY PLAY IN LEARNING AND HOW THE LEXICON EVOLVES OVER TIME?: 5. How agglutinative? Searching for cues to meaning in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) using discriminative learning Gabriela Caballero and Vsevolod Kapatsinski; 6. Words, probability, and segmental information: Less probable words have more informative segments Adam King and Andrew Wedel; 7. Learning complex morphological patterns: The role of syncretism and markedness Sara Finley; Part III. How Do System-Level Principles of Morphological Organization Emerge?: 8. Morphology gets more and more complex, unless it doesn't Eric Meinhardt, Robert Malouf and Farrell Ackerman; 9. Network structure and inflection class predictability: Modeling the emergence of marginal detraction Jeff Parker, Robert Reynolds and Andrea D. Sims; 10. Rule combination, potentiation, affix telescoping Gregory Stump.