Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data

IF 1.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Morphology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI:10.1007/s11525-023-09417-4

Kristian Berg, Stefan Hartmann, Daniel Claeser

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Abstract

Abstract The relation between morphology and spelling is an important source of evidence for theories of linguistic processing. In particular, spelling errors can help us assess the role of morphological structure in language users’ mental representations of words in authentic texts. Previous research suggests that some morphological units are more prone to spelling errors than others, partly depending on the degree to which they are perceived as separate units. In this paper, we want to test this hypothesis by exploring graphemic variation in a collection of 1,667 German school-exit exams. Specifically, we code the spelling errors for their morphological structure. We can show that inflectional suffixes show a much higher probability of final letter omissions compared to final stems or derivational suffixes. We also find tentative evidence that case markers are more often affected by omissions than number markers.

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是否有些形态单位比其他单位更容易发生拼写变化?一个使用自发手写数据的案例研究

词法与拼写的关系是语言加工理论的重要证据来源。特别是，拼写错误可以帮助我们评估词形结构在真实文本中语言使用者对单词的心理表征中的作用。先前的研究表明，一些词形单位比其他单位更容易出现拼写错误，这部分取决于它们被视为独立单位的程度。在本文中，我们想通过探索1667份德国学校毕业考试的文字差异来检验这一假设。具体来说，我们根据拼写错误的形态结构对其进行编码。我们可以证明，与词干或衍生后缀相比，屈折后缀显示出最终字母遗漏的可能性要高得多。我们还发现初步证据表明，大小写标记比数字标记更容易受到省略的影响。

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Morphology LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Aim The aim of Morphology is to publish high quality articles that contribute to the further articulation of morphological theory and linguistic theory in general, or present new and unexplored data. Relevant empirical evidence for the theoretical claims in the articles will be provided by in-depth analyses of specific languages or by comparative, cross-linguistic analyses of the relevant facts. The sources of data can be grammatical descriptions, corpora of data concerning language use and other naturalistic data, and experiments. Scope Morphology publishes articles on morphology proper, as well as articles on the interaction of morphology with phonology, syntax, and semantics, the acquisition and processing of morphological information, the nature of the mental lexicon, and morphological variation and change. Its main focus is on formal models of morphological knowledge, morphological typology (the range and limits of variation in natural languages), the position of morphology in the architecture of the human language faculty, and the evolution and change of language. In addition, the journal deals with the acquisition of morphological knowledge and its role in language processing. Articles on computational morphology and neurolinguistic approaches to morphology are also welcome. The first volume of Morphology appeared as Volume 16 (2006). Previous volumes were published under the title Yearbook of Morphology.