History and Philosophy of Linguistics Reading group Next meeting: Monday, 25 October, 46pm, Woolley S361
Reading: Wieke M. Tabak, Robert Schreuder, & R. Harald Baayen 2005. Lexical statistics and lexical processing: semantic density, information complexity, sex, and irregularity in Dutch >From the introduction: The aim of the present paper is to study the distributional properties of regular and irregular verbs and their consequences for lexical processing in greater depth for Dutch. In section 2, we describe the lexical statistics of Dutch verbs, and investigate to what extent distributional variables may predict regularity as well as a verb¹s historical age. Section 3 reports the results of a large regression study using visual lexical decision as a first step towards understanding the predictivity of the distributional variables for lexical processing in Dutch. In this study, we orthogonally contrasted number (singular versus plural), tense (present versus past), and regularity (regular versus irregular), while including a large number of covariates in the analysis. We also investigated the potential effect of the sex of the subject, as Ullman, Estabrooke, Steinhauer, Brovetto, Pancheva, Ozawa, Mordecai, and Maki (2002) reported sex-related processing differences for regulars and irregulars. For more information & the reading see http://groups.google.com.au/group/HPLinguistics Enquiries: [email protected] All welcome!
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