LING 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parsing, Nonconcatenative Morphology, Lexical Decision Task
7 Jul 2018
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Goal: introduce a word-based approach to morphology that relates two sets of words through schematic correspondence relations. Problem: word syntax has some difficulty with non-concatenative morphology. Morphological complex words may be listed as wholes in the lexicon. Word schemas and correspondences among them express the systematic relationships between words (form, meaning, etc. ) Example: word schema for set of plural words ending in s, e. g. , bag-s, boy-s, tack-s, watch-es, tree-s. Like a lexical entry in terms of content, but not tied to specific items. Psycholinguistic evidence: priming effects in lexical decision tasks. Task: draw a correspondence between singular and plural nouns ending in s. Task: return to the above words, color, color-less, color-s, intelligent, un-intelligent and make word schemas for each type and correspondences between the related words. Questions: how does the word schema theory account for: How affixes may be edge-bound (right or left of base) Question: what descriptive power does the use of variables allow in word schemas.
