Auditory masked priming in Maltese spoken word recognition

Ussishkin, Adam; Dawson, Colin; Wedel, Andrew; Schluter, Kevin

doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1005635

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“…The results cannot disprove the existence of a more abstract level of representation that separates consonants from vowels, as proposed e.g. by Ussishkin et al (2015), but they show that purely consonantal representations are insufficient to explain the productive connection between consonants and vowels.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Our results provide a new argument in favor of lexical representations that combine vowels and consonants, and thus add support to the proposals in Gafos (2003); Berent et al (2007); Bat-El (2017), and others. As noted by these authors, the evidence points towards lexical representations that combine vowels and consonants, but the evidence cannot disprove the notion of a purely consonantal root, as defended in Frost et al (2000); Ussishkin et al (2015) and many others. Such purely consonantal representations, however, would have to coexist with the full representations that we assume.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Brame 1970;McCarthy 1979;a.o. ) and in more recent experimental work (Frost et al 2000;Boudelaa & Marslen-Wilson 2001;Ussishkin et al 2015).…”

Section: Word-based Representations In the Arabic Lexiconmentioning

confidence: 86%

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Vowel unpredictability in Hijazi Arabic monosyllabic verbs

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Becker

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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We study the distribution of vowels in the monosyllabic verbs of Urban Hijazi Arabic, showing that speakers use the presence of a root emphatic consonant to partially predict the quality of stem vowels. The effect of the emphatic is observed in the lexicon, and is productively extended to nonce verbs, showing that speakers generalize over lexical representations that include both vowels and consonants; the purely consonantal representations that are commonly assumed for Arabic are insufficient to capture speakers' knowledge of consonant-vowel interactions. We propose a probabilistic analysis that learns lexical trends from surface forms and extends them productively to nonce words.

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Vowel unpredictability in Hijazi Arabic monosyllabic verbs

Ahyad

Becker

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Historically, Maltese developed from a spoken Maghrebi Arabic variety but due to the colonial history of the island we find extensive influences from Sicilian, Italian and English, which results in a rich morphological variety that is for example visible in its plural system (Ussishkin et al 2015). Maltese has two different types of singularplural mappings.…”

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Knowledge of Maltese singular–plural mappings

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Which factors determine the choice of a plural allomorph for a new singular form? Are regular mappings stored differently from irregular mappings? Do native speakers only rely on analogical mappings to inflect novel word forms or do they use rules? To answer these questions we used data from Maltese, a language with a split morphology, which has a rich and variable set of concatenative and non-concatenative plural patterns.We conducted a production experiment, in which we investigated the mapping of a singular onto a plural. We show that this is driven by an interplay between the similarity of novel singular forms with existing singular words and their corresponding plural forms. Moreover, knowledge of the frequency of the plural patterns in the mental lexicon serves as a basis for generalization to novel words. Our results support an analogical model of morphological processing. We do not find evidence that native speakers use default rules.

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“…Ussishkin, Dawson, Wedel, and Schluter (2015) draw on a unique property of Maltese, allowing them to distinguish contributions of orthography from those of morphology to auditory lexical priming. The unique root-and-pattern word structure of Semitic languages has made them an important empirical domain in research on morphological processing.…”

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Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

Norcliffe

Harris

Jaeger

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field, where theorising is still largely guided by the often implicit assumption of universality. This paper introduces a special issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience devoted to the topic of cross-linguistic and field-based approaches to the study of psycholinguistics. The papers in this issue draw on data from a variety of genetically and areally divergent languages, to address questions in the production and comprehension of phonology, morphology, words, and sentences. To contextualise these studies, we provide an overview of the field of cross-linguistic psycholinguistics, from its early beginnings to the present day, highlighting instances where cross-linguistic data have significantly contributed to psycholinguistic theorising

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Auditory masked priming in Maltese spoken word recognition

Cited by 35 publications

References 30 publications

Vowel unpredictability in Hijazi Arabic monosyllabic verbs

Vowel unpredictability in Hijazi Arabic monosyllabic verbs

Knowledge of Maltese singular–plural mappings

Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

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