Morphological Structure in the Arabic Mental Lexicon: Productivity and Priming Effects in Nominal and Verbal Patterns. Abstract Semitic languages, including Arabic, are characterized by two types of discontinuous morphemes: roots and word patterns. However, the role of these morphemes in lexical access and representation remains debated. Roots have been found to exhibit robust priming effects […]
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Linguists take it as axiomatic that speakers are experts on their languages, both in grammar and usage. However, as Large Language Models (LLM) trained on text and speech become ubiquitous in domains from daily tasks to education and employment, human expertise about language is increasingly devalued. This talk will present the results of three studies […]
Colloquium Talk – Wesley Orth Feb 28 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Location: Royce Hall 156
Colloquium Talk – Dave Cayado Mar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120
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Four short investigations of short duration. I will present four interconnected investigations regarding the effects of short duration in the context of phonetics, phonology and sound change. I’ll start with the observation that durational shortening appears to be a crucial causal factor in at least three unrelated languages (Ennever, Meakins, and Round 2017; Katz and […]
Colloquium Talk – Kelsey Sasaki Mar 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120
Colloquium Talk – Jack Duff Mar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120