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Form and Function: A Study on the Distribution of the Inflectional Endings in Italian Nouns and Adjectives

Pescuma, Valentina Nicole ; Zanini, Chiara ; Crepaldi, Davide ; Franzon, Francesca

Frontiers Research Foundation 2021-10

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  • Título:
    Form and Function: A Study on the Distribution of the Inflectional Endings in Italian Nouns and Adjectives
  • Autor: Pescuma, Valentina Nicole ; Zanini, Chiara ; Crepaldi, Davide ; Franzon, Francesca
  • Assuntos: French & related languages ; Institute of Romance Studies ; Italian, Romanian & related languages ; Latin & Italic languages ; Linguistics ; Literature, rhetoric & criticism ; Spanish & Portuguese languages
  • Notas: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720228
    Pescuma, Valentina Nicole; Zanini, Chiara; Crepaldi, Davide; Franzon, Francesca (2021). Form and Function: A Study on the Distribution of the Inflectional Endings in Italian Nouns and Adjectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:720228.
    https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/212727/
  • Descrição: Inflectional values, such as singular and plural, sustain agreement relations between constituents in sentences, allowing sentence parsing and prediction in online processing. Ideally, these processes would be facilitated by a consistent and transparent correspondence between the inflectional values and their form: for example, the value of plural should always be expressed by the same ending, and that ending should only express plural. Experimental research reports higher processing costs in the presence of a non-transparent relation between forms and values. While this effect was found in several languages, and typological research shows that consistency is far from common in morphological paradigms, it is still somewhat difficult to precisely quantify the transparency degree of the inflected forms. Furthermore, to date, no accounts have quantified the transparency in inflection with regard to the declensional classes and the extent to which it is expressed across different parts of speech, depending on whether these act as controllers of the agreement (e.g., nouns) or as targets (e.g., adjectives). We present a case study on Italian, a language that marks gender and number features in nouns and adjectives. This work provides measures of the distribution of forms in the noun and adjective inflection in Italian, and quantifies the degree of form-value transparency with respect to inflectional endings and declensional classes. In order to obtain these measures, we built Flex It, a dedicated large-scale database of inflectional morphology of Italian, and made it available, in order to sustain further theoretical and empirical research.
  • Editor: Frontiers Research Foundation
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2021-10
  • Idioma: Inglês
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