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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Inflectional Morphology"”.
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Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology
… theory, it reexamines phenomena in the inflectional morphology of Ossetian.</p> <p>The preliminary chapter on phonology provides an overview of the phonemic inventory of Ossetian. In the chapter on nominal morphology, the variety and nature of case and number suffixes is re-analyzed and …
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The computation of inflectional morphology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1993.
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Inflectional morphology in the literacy of deaf children
… are well documented in the deaf population. Morphology provides a source of text-to-meaning associations that should be available to the deaf. In this thesis, different levels of morphological awareness necessary for literacy were tested. Deaf children demonstrated that they associated …
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Inflectional morphology and its interaction with word structure
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1993.
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On rules and exceptions : an investigation of inflectional morphology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1993.
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The inflectional morphology of the verb in modern Greek Koine : a variationist approach
… examined and a number of structural places where inflectional formatives alternate are recognized. To account for all the acceptable "categorical" and "optional" combinations of inflectional formatives, a system of rules is set up. Furthermore, features of the linguistic and situational context …
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The emergence of the Romance languages from Latin: A case for creolization effects.
… differ in terms of their respective effects upon inflectional morphology: normal language change yields morphological loss and morphological creation through grammaticization. Creolization cause inflectional morphology to be severely reduced. Thus, the hypothesis tested would predict that the …
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Parafoveal preview during reading in Russian: native speakers and second language learners
… on the parafoveal processing during reading of inflectional morphology of nouns and verbs in Russian by native speakers and L2 learners via the boundary-change paradigm (Rayner, 1975) and it’s modified within-word version (Hyöna, Bertram, and Pollatsek, 2004). Syntactic position of the target …
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"The language of Enrique de Villena's ""Arte cisoria"""
… works, is followed by chapters on the phonology, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, lexicon, and syntax found in the text. The concluding chapter summarizes the study's findings, and contrasts them with other studies of Villena's language (primarily those of Santiago Lacuesta, …
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Investigating Variability in the Acquisition of English Functional Categories by L1 speakers of Latakian Syrian Arabic and L1 speakers of Mandarin Chinese
… inconsistency in the production of functional morphology by advanced and endstate L2 learners. The level of inconsistency seems to vary among L2 learners, for instance, SD, a Turkish endstate learner of English (White 2003a) was highly accurate in the production of English inflectional …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
… namely, whether absence of surface morphology entails absence of the syntactic representation. A recently influential proposal is that there is dissociation between overt morphology and abstract syntax, as suggested by the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH) (Lardeire, …
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The acquisition of finiteness in English by child second language learners in instructed contexts: age of onset and L1 effects
… resemble adult L2 acquisition in the domain of inflectional morphology, I investigated how two groups of children of different L1s and older than 4 learn the features of tense and agreement and whether accuracy would be declining as an effect of an older age of onset. Participants were 73 …
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Learning, Consolidating, and Generalising Novel Morphology
Despite a central role for morphological knowledge in supporting linguistic generalisation, the neural representations supporting its learning remain largely unexplored. This thesis addressed this gap by exploring the role of memory consolidation in morphological learning and generalisation. In …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… In chapter 8 there is a description of nominal morphology, which pays particular attention to deverbal noun subtypes, such as participles and action nouns. Chapter 9 is concerned with complex nouns, including complex noun phrases (which can only occur in the absolutive case) and nouns with …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… In chapter 8 there is a description of nominal morphology, which pays particular attention to deverbal noun subtypes, such as participles and action nouns. Chapter 9 is concerned with complex nouns, including complex noun phrases (which can only occur in the absolutive case) and nouns with …
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The role of schooling for heritage language learners: A case study of Turkish heritage speakers
… in their heritage language acquisition of inflectional morphology in Turkish. When the results are interpreted to analyze the speaking skills of heritage speakers, dominant home language of each family, frequency of visits to Turkey of heritage speakers, their age, and lastly the duration …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… word order or vastly different inventories of inflectional morphology, Vietnamese-English as a pair in which both languages are SVO and essentially isolating offers a tantalising testing ground for its application. Results show that the universal claims of this model do not hold so …
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How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from Turkish-American returnees
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… not in the domains of the lexicon, semantics, inflectional morphology, and syntax-discourse interface (see Montrul, 2012, 2016, for reviews). However, few studies have directly compared proficiency-matched HSs and L2ers across multiple linguistic domains, and none have done so for Mandarin. …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… less salient properties of the language, such as inflectional morphology (Polinsky & Kagan, 2007). Therefore, Haitian Creole (HC) is a candidate for restructuring. In this investigation we compared the morphophonological patterns of the definite article system at the production and perception …
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