This week in the psycholing workshop we’ll be prepping for the third convening of the American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM3), which will be hosted in the linguistics department October 2-4. In particular, we’ll be discussing a paper relevant to Harald Baayen’s plenary talk, “Doing it without morphemes: A discriminative perspective on morphology and morphological processing”.
Below are two papers relevant to this discussion. The first (Baayen, Hendrix, & Ramscar 2013) is an application of the authors’ own model (Naive Discriminative Learning) to reported word-level n-gram frequency effects in processing. This paper is reasonably approachable, and, I think, a good starting point for a discussion of the reductionist approach Baayen will be pushing in his talk.
I’ve included the second paper (Baayen et al. 2011) only for the curious and ambitious. This paper presents in gorier detail the actual model discussed in the 2013 paper, and is a somewhat more difficult read.
Discussion on Thursday will focus on the 2013 paper, so come ready with comments and questions! See you there!
Shayne