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NetWordS 2015 Word Knowledge and Word Usage Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon March 30th - April 1st, 2015 Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Italy CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS http://www.networds-esf.eu/ ComPhys Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale physiology of communication Vito Pirrelli, Claudia Marzi, and Marcello Ferro (eds.) NetWordS 2015 Word Knowledge and Word Usage Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon Pisa, Italy, March 30th - April 1st, 2015 Conference proceedings Acknowledgements The international conference “Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and pro- cesses in the mental lexicon” was supported by the European Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Humanities within the framework of the NetWordS ERP programme (May 2011 - April 2015). Copyright c 2015 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. Editors’ address: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa, Italy vito.pirrelli, claudia.marzi, marcello.ferro @ilc.cnr.it f g 189 Table of contents 3 Earlier findings et al. (2014) found, namely that young children show a first-mention bias that is too slow to de- Foreword ............................................... 1 According to Järvikivi et al. (2013), German 4- tect, or it may simply show that 3-year-olds are year-olds and adults show a subject preference too young to comprehend cleft-sentences. In any regardless of which word the it-cleft focuses on. case, this shows that older children have a Invited talks ............................................ 2 Moreover, children seem to show a weaker sub- stronger preference for the focused referent than Wolfgang U. Dressler ject preference than adults. We expect similar younger children do. Psycholinguistic illusions in and on morphology .................... 2 results from our data. Adults showed an overall subject preference re- Gabriella Vigliocco Hartshorne et al. (2014) discovered that 2- to 3- gardless of sentence type, except in the condition The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to experience of language . 2 year-olds have a first-mention preference that with object-cleft and no depicted action. This seldom is detected because they take longer to appears to be the only condition that weakens Michael Zock process. We thus expect young children to show their subject preference, probably because it Needles in a haystack and how to find them. Can neuroscientists, psychologists a preference for subject and/or first-mentioned leaves the subject without syntactic focus and and computational linguist help us (to build a tool) to overcome the “tip of the tongue” character, albeit at a later time window, whereas with no visual support. Thus, the effect of syn- problem? .......................................... 2 adults will show an earlier preference than chil- tactic focus and/or a first-mention preference dren. emerges here. Marta Kutas Content and organization of knowledge and its use in language comprehension . 3 Bittner and Kuehnast (2011) have found that Moreover, depicted action seems to have dis- German 3-year-olds rely more on context-cues tracted the adults, since the effect of subject vs. Extended abstracts ........................................ 4 than older German children, who more often use object-clefts offline was only found when the syntax-cues. We thus expect that young children action was not depicted. Olivier Bonami and Sacha Beniamine will be more influenced by the presence of visual Implicative structure and joint predictiveness ...................... 4 context, whereas older children will be more sen- In subject-clefts as opposed to object-clefts, 5- sitive to syntactically expressed focus. and 7-year-olds displayed an online subject pref- Emmanuel Keuleers, Paweł Mandera, Michael¨ Stevens, and Marc Brysbaert erence, although in different manners. Adults Of crowds and corpora: a marriage of measures .................... 10 4 Results also showed this preference, both offline and online. Hence, all these three age groups appear Reza Falahati and Chiara Bertini A mixed design ANOVA showed that 5-year- to use syntax cues, but adults seem to be more Perception of gesturally distinct consonants in Persian . 13 olds looked more at the subject referent after aware of them, as 5- and 7-year-olds still only subject-clefts than object-clefts from 500-1000 reveal their preferences through their gaze be- Hel´ ene` Giraudo and Madeleine Voga ms after pronoun onset (p > .05), whereas adults havior. This supports Järvikivi et al.’s (2013) Words matter more than morphemes: evidence from masked priming with bound- did the same during the first 500 ms (p = .06). suggestion that children use the same cues as stem stimuli ......................................... 19 Adults also showed a general subject preference adults, but that they have not fully developed both offline (p > .001) and online (p > .05), spe- their ability to do so. Giulia Bracco, Basilio Calderone, and Chiara Celata cifically after subject-clefts as opposed to object- Phonotactic probabilities in Italian simplex and complex words: a fragment priming clefts offline (p > .05). Moreover, first-look data References study ............................................. 24 (first look at subject or object referent after pro- noun onset) revealed a stronger subject prefer- Dagmar Bittner and Milena Kuehnast. 2011. Compre- Jim Blevins, Petar Milin, and Michael Ramscar ence in 7-year-olds after subject-clefts than ob- hension of intersentential pronouns in child German Zipfian discrimination ................................... 29 and child Bulgarian. First Language, 32(1-2), 176– ject-clefts (p > .05). We found no significant ef- 204. Gero Kunter fect of visual context in the children. However, Effects of processing complexity in perception and production. The case of English an interaction effect in adults showed that their Jeanette K. Gundel. 2002. Information structure and stronger subject preference in subject-clefts than comparative alternation .................................. 32 the use of cleft sentences in English and Norwegian. object-clefts offline was only present when the Language and Computers, 39(1), 113–128. action was not depicted (p > .05). Claudia Marzi, Marcello Ferro, and Vito Pirrelli Joshua K. Hartshorne, Rebecca Nappa, & Jesse Lexical emergentism and the “frequency-by-regularity” interaction . 37 5 Conclusions Snedeker. 2014. Development of the first-mention bias. Journal of Child Language, 41(3), 1-24. Sebastian Pado,´ Britta D. Zeller, and Jan Snajderˇ The results from the time series data suggest that Morphological priming in German: the word is not enough (or is it?) . 42 adults process the pronouns faster than children, Juhani Järvikivi, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck, Sarah which supports Hartshorne et al. (2014). Schimke, Saveria Colonna, & Barbara Hemforth. Franc¸ois Morlane-Hondere` 2013. Information structure cues for 4-year-olds and What can distributional semantic models tell us about part-of relations? . 46 In contrast to the older children, the 3-year-olds adults: tracking eye movements to visually presented performed at chance level in all the different anaphoric referents. Language and Cognitive Pro- cesses, 0(0), 1–16. Ting Zhao and Victoria A. Murphy conditions. This may be due to what Hartshorne Modeling lexical effects in language production: where have we gone wrong? . 51 188 I Jens Fleischhauer Activating attributes in frames .............................. 58 The role of grammar factors and visual context in Norwegian children’s pronoun resolution Melanie J. Bell and Martin Schafer¨ Modelling semantic transparency in English compound nouns . 63 Haim Dubossarsky, Yulia Tsvetkov, Chris Dyer, and Eitan Grossman Camilla Hellum Foyn Mila Vulchanova Rik Eshuis A bottom up approach to category mapping and meaning change . 66 Department of Department of Department of language and literature language and literature language and literature Maria Rosenberg and Ingmarie Mellenius NTNU NTNU NTNU What NN compounding in child language tells us about categorization . 71 camilla.foyn mila.vulchanova hendrik.eshuis Fabio Montermini @ntnu.no @ntnu.no @ntnu.no Using distributional data to explore derivational under-markedness: a study of the event/property polysemy in nominalization ....................... 76 Dimitrios Alikaniotis and John N. Williams 1 Introduction A distributional semantics approach to implicit language learning . 81 Example of the stimulus sentences: Most personal pronouns have one entry in the mental lexicon, but they can have different refer- Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis 1. Introduction sentence: Suffixation and the expression of space and time in modern Greek . 85 ents depending on the context they appear in. They are sometimes fairly ambiguous. There is Der er hesten og kaninen also evidence that pronoun resolution is impaired Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Pado,´ and Alessandro Lenci There are the.horse and the.rabbit in many developmental deficits. Children have to Same same but different: type and typicality in a distributional model of comple- ment coercion ........................................ 91 learn how to find the intended referent, but we do 2a. Subject-cleft: not know much about how resolution strategies are acquired. How do visual context and syntac- Det er hesten som kiler kaninen Jukka Hyon¨ a,¨ Minna Koski, and Alexander