Location: Royce Hall 362 Phonological Selection in Small Sublexicons Affixes can impose phonological restrictions on the stems they attach to: only consonant-final stems, or stems no bigger than two syllables. These restrictions remain poorly understood and under-formalized. For example, Prosodic Morphology-era analyses characterize adjectival -er/-est affixation as selecting for a trochee, but it remains a...

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...