Topic
Inflection
About: Inflection is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2031 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43909 citations. The topic is also known as: inflexion & accidence.
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15 Oct 2001
TL;DR: Bybee et al. as discussed by the authors studied the role of frequency in the emergence of linguistic structure in the English language and found that it is correlated with the degree of subjectivity in person and verb subjectivity.
Abstract: 1. Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure (by Bybee, Joan L.) 2. Part I: Patterns of Use 3. Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation (by Thompson, Sandra A.) 4. Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English coversation (by Scheibman, Joanne) 5. Paths to prepositions? A corpus-based study of the acquisition of a lexico-grammatical category (by Hallan, Naomi) 6. Part II: Word-level frequency effects 7. Lexical diffusion, lexical frequency, and lexical analysis (by Phillips, Betty S.) 8. Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition and contrast (by Pierrehumbert, Janet B.) 9. Emergent phonotactic generalizations in English and Arabic (by Frisch, Stefan A.) 10. Ambiguity and frequency effects in regular verb inflection (by Hare, Mary L.) 11. Frequency, regularity and the paradigm: A perspective from Russian on a complex relation (by Corbett, Greville G.) 12. Part III: Phrases and constructions 13. Probabilistic relations between words: Evidence from reduction in lexical production (by Jurafsky, Daniel) 14. Frequency effects and word-boundary palatization in English (by Bush, Nathan) 15. The role of frequency in the realization of English that (by Berkenfield, Catie) 16. Frequency, iconicity, categorization: Evidence from emerging modals (by Krug, Manfred G.) 17. Frequency effects on French liaison (by Bybee, Joan L.) 18. The role of frequency in the specialization of the English anterior (by Smith, K. Aaron) 19. Hypercorrect pronoun case in English? Cognitive processes that account for pronoun usage (by Boyland, Joyce Tang) 20. Variability, frequency, and productivity in the irrealis domain of French (by Poplack, Shana) 21. Part IV: General 22. Familiarity, information flow, and linguistic form (by Fenk-Oczlon, Gertraud) 23. Emergentist approaches to language (by MacWhinney, Brian) 24. Inflationary effects in language and elsewhere (by Dahl, Osten) 25. Subject index 26. Name index
1,807 citations
TL;DR: This article examined the variable use of inflection in adult second language (L2) acquisition and found that learners sometimes have a problem with realization of surface morphology, such that they resort to non-finite forms.
Abstract: In this article, two accounts of the variable use of inflection in adult second language (L2) acquisition are examined. The Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH) proposes that L2 learners have unconscious knowledge of the functional projections and features underlying tense and agreement. However, learners sometimes have a problem with realization of surface morphology, such that they resort to non-finite forms (e.g. Haznedar and Schwartz, 1997; Prevost and White, 1999). The Impaired Representation Hypothesis (IRH) claims that L2 inflection is essentially impaired, due to lack of functional categories, features or feature strength (e.g. Eubank, 1993/94; Meisel, 1997). These views make different predictions for adult L2 acquisition. Spontaneous production data from two adult learners of French and two adult learners of German are examined. The data show that finite forms do not occur in non-finite contexts, that learners exhibit syntactic reflexes of finiteness and that inflected forms largely show ...
928 citations
TL;DR: The authors argued that irregular past-tense forms are stored in the lexicon, a division of declarative memory, whereas regular forms can be computed by a concatenation rule, which requires the procedural system.
914 citations
Book Chapter•
1 Jan 2002700 citations
TL;DR: Evidence for the dual nature of the language faculty is provided by describing recent results of a multidisciplinary investigation of German inflection and a linguistic model is explained in terms of the traditional view of the lexicon as a simple list of idiosyncrasies with the notion of internally structured lexical representations is replaced.
Abstract: Following much work in linguistic theory, it is hypothesized that the language faculty has a modular structure and consists of two basic components, a lexicon of (structured) entries and a computational system of combinatorial operations to form larger linguistic expressions from lexical entries. This target article provides evidence for the dual nature of the language faculty by describing recent results of a multidisciplinary investigation of German inflection. We have examined: (1) its linguistic representation, focussing on noun plurals and verb inflection (participles), (2) processes involved in the way adults produce and comprehend inflected words, (3) brain potentials generated during the processing of inflected words, and (4) the way children acquire and use inflection. It will be shown that the evidence from all these sources converges and supports the distinction between lexical entries and combinatorial operations.Our experimental results indicate that adults have access to two distinct processing routes, one accessing (irregularly) inflected entries from the mental lexicon and another involving morphological decomposition of (regularly) inflected words into stem+affix representations. These two processing routes correspond to the dual structure of the linguistic system. Results from event-related potentials confirm this linguistic distinction at the level of brain structures. In children's language, we have also found these two processes to be clearly dissociated; regular and irregular inflection are used under different circumstances, and the constraints under which children apply them are identical to those of the adult linguistic system.Our findings will be explained in terms of a linguistic model that maintains the distinction between the lexicon and the computational system but replaces the traditional view of the lexicon as a simple list of idiosyncrasies with the notion of internally structured lexical representations.
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