TY - JOUR A1 - Farhy, Yael T1 - Morphological generalization of Hebrew verb classes BT - an elicited production study in native and non-native speakers JF - The mental lexicon N2 - The present work investigated how morphological generalization, namely the way speakers extend their knowledge to novel complex words, is influenced by sources of variability in language and speaker properties. For this purpose, the study focused on a Semitic language (Hebrew), characterized by unique non-concatenative morphology, and native ( L1) as well as non-native (L2) speakers. Two elicited production tasks tested what information sources speakers employ in verbal inflectional class generalization, i.e., in forming complex novel verbs. Phonological similarity was tested in Experiment 1 and argument structure in Experiment 2. The analysis focused on the two most common Hebrew inflectional classes, Paal and Piel, which also constituted the vast majority of responses in the two tasks. Unlike the commonly found outcomes in Romance inflectional class generalization, the results yielded, solely for Piel, a graded phonological similarity effect and a robust argument structure effect, i.e., more Piel responses in a direct object context than without. The L2 pattern partially differed from the L1: (i) argument structure effect for L2 speakers was weaker, and (ii) L2 speakers produced more Paal than Piel responses. The results are discussed within the framework of rule-based and input-based accounts. KW - morphology KW - generalization KW - inflectional classes KW - Hebrew KW - non-native KW - speakers Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.19001.far SN - 1871-1340 SN - 1871-1375 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 223 EP - 257 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stegenwallner-Schütz, Maja A1 - Adani, Flavia T1 - Production of referring expressions by children with ASD BT - effects of referent accessibility and working memory capacity JF - Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics N2 - This study examines the discourse basis for referent accessibility and its relation to the choice of referring expressions by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and typically developing children. The aim is to delineate how the linguistic and extra-linguistic context affects referent accessibility to the speaker. The study also examines the degree to which accessibility effects are modulated by cognitive factors such as working memory capacity. In the study, the contrast levels between the referent and a competitor (one contrast/two contrasts) and the syntactic prominence of the referent (subject/object position in the preceding question) were manipulated in an elicited production task. The results provide evidence that the referring expressions of children with ASD correlate with the discourse status of referents to a similar extent as in typically developing controls. All children were more likely to refer with lexical NPs to referents that contrasted on two levels with a highly prominent competitor, compared to referents that contrasted on one level. They were also more likely to produce pronouns for referents previously mentioned in the subject than the object position. The effect of both discourse factors was modulated by the age and working memory capacity of the children with and without ASD. Accordingly, the study suggests that children with ASD do not generally differ from children with typical development in their referential choices when the discourse status of a referent allows them to model the referent's accessibility from their own discourse perspective in a way that is modulated by working memory capacity. KW - attention KW - autism spektrum disorders KW - choice KW - communication KW - discourse KW - information KW - language KW - pronouns KW - sensitivity KW - speakers Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2020.1769625 SN - 1048-9223 SN - 1532-7817 VL - 27 IS - 3 SP - 276 EP - 305 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER -