Naslov
Morphological Priming in German: The Word is Not Enough (Or Is It?)

Autori
Padó, Sebastian ; Zeller, Britta Zeller ; Šnajder, Jan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of NetWordS 2015 / - Pisa, 2015, 42-45

Skup
NetWordS 2015

Mjesto i datum
Pisa, Italija, 30.03.2015. - 01.04.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Morphological derivation; distributional semantics; morphological priming; German language

Sažetak
Studies across multiple languages show that overt morphological priming leads to a speed-up only for transparent derivations but not for opaque derivations. However, in a recent experiment for German, Smolka et al. (2014) show comparable speed-ups for transparent and opaque derivations, and conclude that German behaves unlike other Indo-European languages and organizes its mental lexicon by morphemes rather than lemmas. In this paper we present a computational analysis of the German results. A distributional similarity model, extended with knowledge about morphological families and without any notion of morphemes, is able to account for all main findings of Smolka et al. We believe that this puts into question the call for German-specific mechanisms. Instead, our model suggests that cross-lingual differences between morphological systems underlie the experimentally observed differences

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Računarstvo

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