-ata nominalisations in Maltese: a language contact perspective
The -ata derivational suffix is attested frequently in nominalisations in Italo-Romance languages and its functions related to ‘event/single instance’ nouns have been documented extensively.
Sandro Caruana
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The include network: Advancing cross‐linguistic equity in brain health research
Abstract Speech and language measures are increasingly recognized as sensitive, scalable, non‐invasive markers of diverse brain disorders. Yet, current research is overwhelmingly English‐centric, neglecting the world's vast linguistic diversity and undermining these markers’ global applicability.
Adolfo M. García +13 more
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Some considerations about children’s knowledge of derivational morphology
Estudos realizados em língua inglesa mostram que a habilidade de refletir sobre os morfemas que compõem as palavras está associada ao sucesso no reconhecimento e compreensão de palavras, na leitura, e na escrita.
Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da Mota
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Generation of exercises for derivational morphology using the Démonette database
Cet article présente un démonstrateur qui permet de créer facilement des énoncés d’exercices en très grand nombre à partir des données présentes dans la base de données Démonette.
Nabil Hathout +4 more
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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Lexikální síť DeriNet: elektronický zdroj pro výzkum derivace v češtině : The Derinet Lexical Network: a Language Data Resource for Research into Derivation in Czech [PDF]
The paper introduces the DeriNet lexical database, which includes more than 969,000 Czech words interconnected by 718,000 links corresponding to derivational relations (relations between a base word and a word derived from it).
Magda Ševčíková +3 more
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Probing Prediction‐Related Processes in Language Using an EEG Word Stem Completion Paradigm
ABSTRACT Humans comprehend language rapidly, with active prediction of upcoming words as a key mechanism. Studies using sentences have documented facilitations in behavior and brain activity (N400) when people encounter predictable words, and brain responses (anterior positivity) specific to prediction violations.
Hui‐Sun Chiu +2 more
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Derivational Morphological Relations in Word Embeddings [PDF]
Derivation is a type of a word-formation process which creates new words from existing ones by adding, changing or deleting affixes. In this paper, we explore the potential of word embeddings to identify properties of word derivations in the morphologically rich Czech language.
Tomás Musil +2 more
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Moroccan Arabic (MA) has a derivational noun circumfix /ta-...-t/ that is borrowed from the neighboring Berber languages. This circumfix is highly productive on native MA noun stems but not productive on borrowed Berber stems (which are rare in MA). This
Georgia Zellou
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