Papers by Katharina Korecky-Kröll
First Language, 2011
This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed spe... more This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1;3-3;0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech. 404306F LAXXX10.1177/0963662511404306Xanthos et al.First Language Article
(in Druck) In: Klaus-Michael Köpcke & Arne Ziegler (Hrsg.): Deutsche Grammatik in Kontakt. Deutsch als Zweitsprache in Schule und Unterricht (Reihe Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen). Berlin: De Gruyter.
First Language, 2011
This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed spe... more This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1;3-3;0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech. 404306F LAXXX10.1177/0963662511404306Xanthos et al.First Language Article
According to the Strong Morphonotactic Hypothesis (SMH), speakers use morphonotactic
consonant c... more According to the Strong Morphonotactic Hypothesis (SMH), speakers use morphonotactic
consonant clusters as morphological boundary signals. Morphonotactic clusters are
thereby assigned a morphological function in processing, which is assumed to facilitate
processing and acquisition of complex consonantal structures.
The aim of this paper is that of testing the SMH from a computational point of view,
making use of a corpus-based model of neural network activation (PHACTS) trained on a
German corpus. In this work, we evaluate whether PHACTS produces different representations for homophonous
phonological sequences that either contain or do not contain a morphological
boundary. The study provides a psycholinguistically plausible simulation of how the cognitive representation
of (mor)phonotactic clusters emerges from corpus information about the
phonotactics of a given language.
Two experiments showed that, when processing consonant clusters of their native language, the spe... more Two experiments showed that, when processing consonant clusters of their native language, the speakers are sensitive to the presence of a mor- phemic boundary at some point of the cluster. In the first experiment, words with tri-consonantal final cluster had to be produced by inserting an /i/ in the cluster; the clusters containing a morpheme boundary were more frequently split according to the position of the boundary while the corresponding clusters included in a mono-morphemic word were split according to different options. In the second experiment, the subjects had to detect tri-consonantal clusters while a series of German words was auditorily presented; clusters included in monomorphemic words were easier to detect than homophonous clusters which spanned a morpheme boundary. The impact of morphonotactics on cluster processing was stronger on adolescents than on adults in Experiment 1. The results thus indicated that in offline and online processing of phonotactic struc- tures, morphological information can be available and impact on the recogni- tion and manipulation of clusters.
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Papers by Katharina Korecky-Kröll
consonant clusters as morphological boundary signals. Morphonotactic clusters are
thereby assigned a morphological function in processing, which is assumed to facilitate
processing and acquisition of complex consonantal structures.
The aim of this paper is that of testing the SMH from a computational point of view,
making use of a corpus-based model of neural network activation (PHACTS) trained on a
German corpus. In this work, we evaluate whether PHACTS produces different representations for homophonous
phonological sequences that either contain or do not contain a morphological
boundary. The study provides a psycholinguistically plausible simulation of how the cognitive representation
of (mor)phonotactic clusters emerges from corpus information about the
phonotactics of a given language.
consonant clusters as morphological boundary signals. Morphonotactic clusters are
thereby assigned a morphological function in processing, which is assumed to facilitate
processing and acquisition of complex consonantal structures.
The aim of this paper is that of testing the SMH from a computational point of view,
making use of a corpus-based model of neural network activation (PHACTS) trained on a
German corpus. In this work, we evaluate whether PHACTS produces different representations for homophonous
phonological sequences that either contain or do not contain a morphological
boundary. The study provides a psycholinguistically plausible simulation of how the cognitive representation
of (mor)phonotactic clusters emerges from corpus information about the
phonotactics of a given language.