Exploring the Measurement of Markedness and Its Relationship with Other Linguistic Variables. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Antonym pair members can be differentiated by each word's markedness-that distinction attributable to the presence or absence of features at morphological or semantic levels.
Joanne Ingram +2 more
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Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study examined potential sources of grammatical gender variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with a focus on morphological markedness.
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Processing different types of iconicity in Chinese transferred epithet comprehension: An ERP study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Transferred epithet can be regarded as a reflection of semantic markedness since the modifier and the modified conflict with each other and lead to semantic deviation; yet the corresponding processing mechanism is less studied. The present study examined
Qiaoyun Liao +3 more
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The Effect of Lexicality, Frequency, and Markedness on Mandarin Tonal Categorization [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 While the Ganong lexicality effect has been observed for phonemic and tonal categorization, the effects of frequency and markedness are less clear, especially in terms of tonal categorization.
Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Shao-Jie Jin, Yu-An Lu
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Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian.
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Sonority as a Phonological Cue in Early Perception of Written Syllables in French [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Many studies focused on the letter and sound co-occurrences to account for the well-documented syllable-based effects in French in visual (pseudo)word processing.
Méghane Tossonian +5 more
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Universal Restrictions in Reading: What Do French Beginning Readers (Mis)perceive? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Despite the many reports that consider statistical distribution to be vitally important in visual identification tasks in children, some recent studies suggest that children do not always rely on statistical properties to help them locate syllable ...
Norbert Maïonchi-Pino +5 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 This paper examines a formal consequence of the assumption that dominance is equivalent to markedness (Casali 2016): if dominant ATR values are marked and therefore specified, while recessive values are unmarked and unspecified, then no phonological ...
Katherine Hout
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Why markedness is always local: the case of Russian aspect
CogniTextes, 2023 Markedness is the observation of an encoding asymmetry in which higher complexity (both in terms of form and meaning) tends to pattern with lower frequency.
Daria Kosheleva, Laura Alexis Janda
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Representation of Uniformity in Persian and English Inflection Based on Dressler and Mayerthaler Approach: A Corpus-based Study [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2022 This study investigates the uniformity of Persian and English inflectional affixes based on Natural Morphology Theory to show how the uniformity of inflectional affixes of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs can be explained.
Leila Gholipour Hsasnkiadeh +1 more
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