Emerging roots: Investigating early access to meaning in Maltese auditory word recognition
Jessica Nieder,
Ruben van de Vijver,
Adam Ussishkin
Abstract:In Semitic languages, the consonantal root is considered an inherent property of the morphological system combining morphological functions and meaning. Psycholinguistic studies reinforce its importance for language processing. Yet, an unanswered question is how the meaning of the root is represented. This study sets out to explore the meaning incorporated in Maltese consonantal roots using a computational modeling procedure that is grounded in the framework of the Discriminative Lexicon. Our model is not only… Show more
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