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| Title: | Lexical Structure and the Nature of Linguistic Representations |
| Authors: | Fiorentino, Robert D. |
| Advisors: | Poeppel, David |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | Language, Linguistics (0290)
morphology, MEG, affixation, lexical access, neurolinguistics, electrophysiology |
| Issue Date: | 9-Aug-2006 |
| Abstract: | This dissertation addresses a foundational debate regarding the role of structure and abstraction in linguistic representation, focusing on representations at the lexical level. Under one set of views, positing abstract morphologically-structured representations, words are decomposable into morpheme-level basic units; however, alternative views now challenge the need for abstract structured representation in lexical representation, claiming non-morphological whole-word storage and processing either across-the-board or depending on factors like transparency/productivity/surface form. Our cross-method/cross-linguistic results regarding morphological-level decomposition argue for initial, automatic decomposition, regardless of factors like semantic transparency, surface formal overlap, word frequency, and productivity, contrary to alternative views of the lexicon positing non-decomposition for some or all complex words.
Using simultaneous lexical decision and time-sensitive brain activit... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3896 |
| Appears in Collections: | Linguistics Theses and Dissertations
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