1. Hungarian speakers use morphological dependencies in inflecting novel formsGuy Tabachnick, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: Theories of morphology must account for lexicalized variation: lexical items that differ unpredictably in their inflection must be memorized individually and differ in their stored representation. When tested on such cases, adult speakers usually follow the Law of Frequency Matching (Hayes et al. 2009), extending gradient phonological patterns from the lexicon. This paper looks at lexicalized variation in the Hungarian possessive: first, I show that a noun’s choice of possessive is partially predicted by its plural form as well as its phonological shape. Then, using a novel nonce word paradigm, I show that Hungarian speakers productively apply this cooccurrence pattern between the plural and possessive. I handle lexicalized variation with diacritic features marking lexical entries and propose that Hungarian speakers have learned a gradient cooccurrence relation between diacritic features indexing their plural and possessive forms, extending the sublexicon model of Gouskova et al. (2015). In this proposal, morphological knowledge is distributed across rules in a generative grammar, individual lexical items indexed for their morphological properties, and pattern-matching grammars storing generalizations over those indexed lexical items.
Keywords: frequency matching, diacritic features, inflectional paradigms, productivity, wug test, Hungarian
Published in RUNG: 18.06.2024; Views: 347; Downloads: 2
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2. Morphological dependencies : a dissertationGuy Tabachnick, 2023, doctoral dissertation Abstract: This dissertation investigates morphological dependencies: correlations between two lexically specific patterns, such as selection of inflectional affixes. Previous work has established that such correlations exist in the lexicon of morphologically rich languages (Ackerman et al., 2009; Wurzel, 1989), but has not systematically tested whether speakers productively extend these patterns to novel words. I present a series of corpus and nonce word studies—in Hungarian, Czech, and Russian—testing whether speakers vary their selection of suffixed forms of novel words based on the forms of that word that are presented to them. In all three cases, speakers vary their responses in accordance with the provided stimuli, demonstrating that they have learned and productively apply morphological dependencies from the lexicon.
I present a theoretical account of morphological dependencies that can account for my experimental results, based on the sublexicon model of phonological learning (Allen & Becker, 2015; Becker & Gouskova, 2016; Gouskova et al., 2015). In this model, speakers index lexically specific behavior with diacritic features attached to underlying forms in lexical entries, and learn generalizations over sublexicons defined as words that share a feature. These generalizations are stored as constraints in phonotactic grammars for each sublexicon, enabling speakers to learn phonological and morphological dependencies predicting words that pattern together. This model provides a unified treatment of morphological dependencies and generalizations that are phonological in nature. My studies show a wide range of learned effects, not limited to those that follow an organizational principle like paradigm uniformity. The sublexicon model assumes that speakers can learn arbitrary generalizations without restrictions, giving it needed flexibility over more restrictive models which rely on notions of morphophonological naturalness.
Keywords: inflectional affixes, nonce word study, lexical productivity, morphological dependencies, diacritic features, dissertations
Published in RUNG: 04.03.2024; Views: 720; Downloads: 8
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3. Yat-alternation and the imperfect tense in Bulgarian. A rule-based analysis.Danil Khristov, 2022, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: The paper proposes a rule-based feature analysis of the ya/e phenomenon in Bulgarian. Special attention
is paid to the variable ya/е observed in the forms of the imperfect tense. First and second-conjugation verbs whose
imperfect forms involve yat-alternation are compared with third-conjugation verbs where this alternation is not observed. The analysis also addresses the role of morphology in the process of adding different imperfect endings to
the verb base and the effect of these endings on the variable ya/e. Finally, the phonemic status of soft consonants is
discussed in relation to the proposed analysis.
Keywords: yat vowel, yat-alternation, variable ya/e, imperfect tense, rule-based analysis, features
Published in RUNG: 06.09.2022; Views: 1612; Downloads: 0
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4. Carbon and Nitrogen K-Edge NEXAFS Spectra of Indole, 2,3-Dihydro-7-azaindole, and 3-FormylindoleAurora Ponzi, Elisa Bernes, Daniele Toffoli, Giovanna Fronzoni, Carlo Callegari, Alessandra Ciavardini, Michele Di Fraia, Robert Richter, Kevin Charles Prince, Hanan Sa'adeh, Michele Devetta, Davide Faccialà, Caterina Vozzi, Lorenzo Avaldi, Paola Bolognesi, Mattea Castrovilli, Daniele Catone, Marcello Coreno, Oksana Plekan, 2021, original scientific article Keywords: Carbon and nitrogen, General description, Hybrid functional, Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum, Relevant features, Rydberg character, Theoretical spectra, Time dependent density functional theory
Published in RUNG: 19.01.2022; Views: 2187; Downloads: 0
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5. Converting apprehensive customers to willing customers : building trust in online shopping arenaSaibal K. Pal, 2017, original scientific article Abstract: This study focuses on knowing about the factors that can affect the trust levels of the consumers involved in online shopping. Trust has been identified as a prominent factor that ultimately leads to the transformation of the apprehensive customers into willing customers. The role of website design features and portal affiliation is tested regarding their impact in affecting the trusting beliefs of the customers. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was put to use to do the statistical testing on the data collected through students of tier III city of India. The results
showed that the website design features have an important role to play in affecting the trusting beliefs of the people whereas portal affiliation didn’t have much of a role. The study
implies that the website managers must focus on their design features if they want to gain the trust of their customers. The portal affiliation wouldn’t be fruitful in the case of a student
at least. Better shoppers amongst students must be attracted towards portals through innovative designs and features.
Keywords: online shopping, building trust, website design features, portal affiliation, structural equation modelling, theory of reasoned action
Published in RUNG: 01.04.2021; Views: 2063; Downloads: 0
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