In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivatio... more In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers ' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) in-vestigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speakers, native speakers of Slovenian make a clear line between pseudo-words that violate word-formation rules of Slovenian and words that do not, but that they do not differentiate between pseudo-words with different types of violations, equally rejecting all pseudo words with violations.
In this paper we present the word selection process in the Slovenian matrix sentence test for spe... more In this paper we present the word selection process in the Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intelligibility measurements. We focus on the phonemic distribution in the test, which should be approximated as closely as possible to the distribution in the language. We establish phonemic distribution for Slovenian by combining the orthographic distribution in the corpus ccKress and the phonetic distribution in Mihelič (2006). As a result, a phonemically balanced matrix test is proposed for Slovenian. 1. Background and Research Goals Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to assess the communication function of the patient by determining the level of the patient's ability to understand and repeat words or sentences presented to him or her in a hearing test. For this purpose, the adaptation of the Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test and the Freiburg Number Test are used in Slovenia. The Slovenian version was developed in Pomp...
This paper presents a word selection process in a Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intel... more This paper presents a word selection process in a Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intelligibility measurements. We focus on phonemic distribution in the test, which should be approximated as closely as possible to distribution in the language. We establish a phonemic distribution for Slovenian by combining the orthographic distribution in the corpus ccKres and the phonetic distribution in Mihelic (2006) for cases where the orthographic record does not correspond to the phonetic one. The result is a proposal of a phonemically balanced matrix test for Slovenian.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) affects the cognitive performance of elderly adults. However, the... more Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) affects the cognitive performance of elderly adults. However, the level of severity is not high enough to be diagnosed with dementia. Previous research reports subtle language impairments in individuals with MCI specifically in domains related to lexical meaning. The present study used both off-line (grammaticality judgment) and on-line (lexical decision) tasks to examine aspects of lexical processing and how they are affected by MCI. 21 healthy older adults and 23 individuals with MCI saw complex pseudo-words that violated various principles of word formation in Slovenian and decided if each letter string was an actual word of their language. The pseudo-words ranged in their degree of violability. A task effect was found, with MCI performance to be similar to that of healthy controls in the off-line task but different in the on-line task. Overall, the MCI group responded slower than the elderly controls. No significant differences were observed in th...
The article deals with the predictability of gender in Slovenian nouns by comparing the system of... more The article deals with the predictability of gender in Slovenian nouns by comparing the system of gender assignment in Toporisic (2000) and Corbett (1991). In the first part, Corbett’s algorithm for classifying nouns into gender groups is presented and applied to Slovenian. The second part introduces some special cases that cannot be classified with Corbett’s algorithm (epicene, hybrid, and double gender nouns).
Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to... more Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to assess the communication function of the patient by determining the level of the patient’s ability to understand and repeat words presented to him or her in a hearing test. For this purpose, the Slovenian adaptation of the German tests developed by Hahlbrock (1953, 1960) – the Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test and the Freiburg Number Test – are used in Slovenia (adapted in 1968 by Pompe). In this paper we focus on the Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test for Slovenian, which has been criticized by patients as well as in the literature for the unequal difficulty and frequency of the words, with many of these being extremely rare or even obsolete. As part of the patient’s communication function is retrieving the meaning of individual words by guessing, the less frequent and consequently less familiar words do not contribute to reliable testing results. We therefore adapt the test by identifying ...
It is a well-known fact that in English, syllabification of derived words differs according to th... more It is a well-known fact that in English, syllabification of derived words differs according to the attaching affix, Chomsky and Halle (1968). In words such as hinder, meter, burgle the final sonorant of the roots /hindr/, /mitr/, /burgl/ is syllabic in word final position, following the rule of schwa insertion that makes a final sonorant preceded by a consonant syllabic. However, in related forms where these roots are followed by a vowel-initial affix, such as hindrance, metric, burglar, the sonorants in question are not syllabic, butare syllabified as onsets of the following syllable. Not all affixes beginning in a vowel have the same effect on syllabification. The participle forming affixing triggers the schwa-insertion regardless of its vowel-initial status, e.g. (hinder /hindgr/: hindrance /hindrans/, but hindering /hindgril]/, */hindril]/). Chomsky and Halle (1968) treat this property as inherent to the attaching affix; i.e.-ance in hindrance differs from-ing in hindering with respect to the triggering of the schwa-insertion rule. Using a finer-grained syntax of words, this paper derives the differences in pronunciation of the above mentioned words as following not exclusively from a diacritic on the affix, as in Chomsky and Halle (1968), but rather from the attachment position of the affix in the syntactic structure of the word.
In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivatio... more In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) investigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speakers, native speakers of Slovenian make a clear line between pseudowords that violate word-formation rules of Slovenian and words that do not, but that they do not differentiate between pseudo-words with different types of violations, equally rejecting all pseudo words with violations. V članku se ukvarjamo z raziskavo pomena različnih besedotvornih pravil v povezavi z izpeljavo slovenskih samostalnikov, ki označujejo vršilca dejanja, tako da ugotavljamo, kako govorci sprejemajo psevdobesede, ki ta različna besedotvorna pravila kršijo. Poskus temelji na podobnem poskusu za moderno grščino v Manouilidou (2007) in vključuje 20 rojenih govorcev slovenščine. Rezultati pokažejo, da rojeni govorci slovenščine postavijo jasno mejo med psevdobesedami z besedotvornimi kršitvami in obstoječimi slovenskimi besedami (ter psevdobesedami brez kršitev), saj v nasprotju z rojenimi govorci grščine v enaki meri zavračajo vse besede s kršitvami, kar kaže na to, da vsem testiranim besedotvornim kršitvam pripisujejo enak pomen.
In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivatio... more In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers ' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) in-vestigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speakers, native speakers of Slovenian make a clear line between pseudo-words that violate word-formation rules of Slovenian and words that do not, but that they do not differentiate between pseudo-words with different types of violations, equally rejecting all pseudo words with violations.
In this paper we present the word selection process in the Slovenian matrix sentence test for spe... more In this paper we present the word selection process in the Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intelligibility measurements. We focus on the phonemic distribution in the test, which should be approximated as closely as possible to the distribution in the language. We establish phonemic distribution for Slovenian by combining the orthographic distribution in the corpus ccKress and the phonetic distribution in Mihelič (2006). As a result, a phonemically balanced matrix test is proposed for Slovenian. 1. Background and Research Goals Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to assess the communication function of the patient by determining the level of the patient's ability to understand and repeat words or sentences presented to him or her in a hearing test. For this purpose, the adaptation of the Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test and the Freiburg Number Test are used in Slovenia. The Slovenian version was developed in Pomp...
This paper presents a word selection process in a Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intel... more This paper presents a word selection process in a Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intelligibility measurements. We focus on phonemic distribution in the test, which should be approximated as closely as possible to distribution in the language. We establish a phonemic distribution for Slovenian by combining the orthographic distribution in the corpus ccKres and the phonetic distribution in Mihelic (2006) for cases where the orthographic record does not correspond to the phonetic one. The result is a proposal of a phonemically balanced matrix test for Slovenian.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) affects the cognitive performance of elderly adults. However, the... more Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) affects the cognitive performance of elderly adults. However, the level of severity is not high enough to be diagnosed with dementia. Previous research reports subtle language impairments in individuals with MCI specifically in domains related to lexical meaning. The present study used both off-line (grammaticality judgment) and on-line (lexical decision) tasks to examine aspects of lexical processing and how they are affected by MCI. 21 healthy older adults and 23 individuals with MCI saw complex pseudo-words that violated various principles of word formation in Slovenian and decided if each letter string was an actual word of their language. The pseudo-words ranged in their degree of violability. A task effect was found, with MCI performance to be similar to that of healthy controls in the off-line task but different in the on-line task. Overall, the MCI group responded slower than the elderly controls. No significant differences were observed in th...
The article deals with the predictability of gender in Slovenian nouns by comparing the system of... more The article deals with the predictability of gender in Slovenian nouns by comparing the system of gender assignment in Toporisic (2000) and Corbett (1991). In the first part, Corbett’s algorithm for classifying nouns into gender groups is presented and applied to Slovenian. The second part introduces some special cases that cannot be classified with Corbett’s algorithm (epicene, hybrid, and double gender nouns).
Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to... more Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to assess the communication function of the patient by determining the level of the patient’s ability to understand and repeat words presented to him or her in a hearing test. For this purpose, the Slovenian adaptation of the German tests developed by Hahlbrock (1953, 1960) – the Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test and the Freiburg Number Test – are used in Slovenia (adapted in 1968 by Pompe). In this paper we focus on the Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test for Slovenian, which has been criticized by patients as well as in the literature for the unequal difficulty and frequency of the words, with many of these being extremely rare or even obsolete. As part of the patient’s communication function is retrieving the meaning of individual words by guessing, the less frequent and consequently less familiar words do not contribute to reliable testing results. We therefore adapt the test by identifying ...
It is a well-known fact that in English, syllabification of derived words differs according to th... more It is a well-known fact that in English, syllabification of derived words differs according to the attaching affix, Chomsky and Halle (1968). In words such as hinder, meter, burgle the final sonorant of the roots /hindr/, /mitr/, /burgl/ is syllabic in word final position, following the rule of schwa insertion that makes a final sonorant preceded by a consonant syllabic. However, in related forms where these roots are followed by a vowel-initial affix, such as hindrance, metric, burglar, the sonorants in question are not syllabic, butare syllabified as onsets of the following syllable. Not all affixes beginning in a vowel have the same effect on syllabification. The participle forming affixing triggers the schwa-insertion regardless of its vowel-initial status, e.g. (hinder /hindgr/: hindrance /hindrans/, but hindering /hindgril]/, */hindril]/). Chomsky and Halle (1968) treat this property as inherent to the attaching affix; i.e.-ance in hindrance differs from-ing in hindering with respect to the triggering of the schwa-insertion rule. Using a finer-grained syntax of words, this paper derives the differences in pronunciation of the above mentioned words as following not exclusively from a diacritic on the affix, as in Chomsky and Halle (1968), but rather from the attachment position of the affix in the syntactic structure of the word.
In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivatio... more In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) investigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speakers, native speakers of Slovenian make a clear line between pseudowords that violate word-formation rules of Slovenian and words that do not, but that they do not differentiate between pseudo-words with different types of violations, equally rejecting all pseudo words with violations. V članku se ukvarjamo z raziskavo pomena različnih besedotvornih pravil v povezavi z izpeljavo slovenskih samostalnikov, ki označujejo vršilca dejanja, tako da ugotavljamo, kako govorci sprejemajo psevdobesede, ki ta različna besedotvorna pravila kršijo. Poskus temelji na podobnem poskusu za moderno grščino v Manouilidou (2007) in vključuje 20 rojenih govorcev slovenščine. Rezultati pokažejo, da rojeni govorci slovenščine postavijo jasno mejo med psevdobesedami z besedotvornimi kršitvami in obstoječimi slovenskimi besedami (ter psevdobesedami brez kršitev), saj v nasprotju z rojenimi govorci grščine v enaki meri zavračajo vse besede s kršitvami, kar kaže na to, da vsem testiranim besedotvornim kršitvam pripisujejo enak pomen.
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