[HTML][HTML] Form and function: A study on the distribution of the inflectional endings in Italian nouns and adjectives

VN Pescuma, C Zanini, D Crepaldi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Inflectional values, such as singular and plural, sustain agreement relations between
constituents in sentences, allowing sentence parsing and prediction in online processing …

Why do objects have many names? A study on word informativeness in language use and lexical systems

E Gualdoni, G Boleda - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07827, 2024 - arxiv.org
Human lexicons contain many different words that speakers can use to refer to the same
object, eg," purple" or" magenta" for the same shade of color. On the one hand, studies on …

[HTML][HTML] Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities in Reading

M De Rosa, L Vignali, A D'Urso, M Ktori… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …

Principles of semantic and functional efficiency in grammatical patterning

E Cheng, F Franzon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15865, 2024 - arxiv.org
Grammatical features such as number and gender serve two central functions in human
languages. While they encode salient semantic attributes like numerosity and animacy, they …

[HTML][HTML] The cognitive reality of morphomes. Evidence from Italian

C Cappellaro, N Dumrukcic, I Fritz, F Franzon… - Morphology, 2024 - Springer
This study reports and discusses the results of a pilot psycholinguistic investigation into the
morphome–a term created (Aronoff) to indicate systematic relations between form and …

The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages

S Rastelli - 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain
language elements naturally pair together. However, they also understand, through abstract …

[PDF][PDF] Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities

M De Rosa, L Vignali, A D'Urso, M Ktori, R Bottini… - 2023 - files.de-1.osf.io
Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …

[PDF][PDF] ENTRAINMENT TO LINGUISTIC REGULARITIES 2

M De Rosa, L Vignali, A D'Urso, M Ktori, R Bottini… - iris.sissa.it
Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …

[PDF][PDF] Orthographic and lexical effects in Neglect Dyslexia: evidence from prefixation

B Franzoia, G Bencini, S Laratta, F Franzon… - PsyArXiv …, 2022 - easychair.org
Information on lexical representation and processing can be obtained by observing how
attention and lexical access interact in Neglect Dyslexia (ND). Spared morpho-lexical …

[PDF][PDF] Underdetermination of semantic attributes for the optimization of functional features. A study on Italian.

F Franzon - exmorph2022.univie.ac.at
Natural languages consistently convey through grammatical features a small set of semantic
attributes concerning the referential world. An example is the nominal morphology of …