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 ovember-2004-MPI-Colloquium-Series-Ingo-Plag
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SUMMARY:MPI Colloquium Series, Ingo Plag
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Ingo Plag (Siegen, Germany)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041116T154500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041116T000000
LOCATION:Room 1.63, Max Planck Institute for Psych
 olinguistics, Wundtlaan 1,\n      Nijmegen
DESCRIPTION:There is a long-standing debate about 
 the principles and mechanisms that constrain the c
 ombinatorial properties of affixes, in particular 
 of English suffixes. Most recently, Hay has propos
 ed a psycholinguistic model of morphological compl
 exity, according to which an affix which can be ea
 sily parsed out in processing should not occur ins
 ide an affix which cannot. This model has been cal
 led 'complexity based ordering'. The general claim
  is that affixes can be approximately ordered alon
 g a hierarchy of complexity, with more separable a
 ffixes at one end, and less separable affixes at t
 he other end. More separable affixes can attach ou
 tside less separable affixes, but not vice-versa. 
    In this talk, Ingo Plag presents research that 
 tested the predictions of complexity based orderin
 g through an investigation of 30 English suffixes 
 and their potential combinations.   For abstracts 
 and more information, see http://www.mpi.nl/world/
 colloquia/col-program.html.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n      <p>\n        
 There is a long-standing debate about the principl
 es and\n        mechanisms that constrain the comb
 inatorial properties of\n        affixes, in parti
 cular of English suffixes. Most recently, Hay\n   
      has proposed a psycholinguistic model of morp
 hological\n        complexity, according to which 
 an affix which can be easily\n        parsed out i
 n processing should not occur inside an affix\n   
      which cannot. This model has been called 'com
 plexity based\n        ordering'. The general clai
 m is that affixes can be\n        approximately or
 dered along a hierarchy of complexity, with\n     
    more separable affixes at one end, and less sep
 arable affixes\n        at the other end. More sep
 arable affixes can attach outside\n        less se
 parable affixes, but not vice-versa.\n      </p>\n
       <p>\n        In this talk, Ingo Plag present
 s research that tested the predictions\n        of
  complexity based ordering through an investigatio
 n of 30\n        English suffixes and their potent
 ial combinations.\n      </p>\n    \n      <p>For 
 abstracts and more information, see\n        <a ta
 rget="_blank" href="http://www.mpi.nl/world/colloq
 uia/col-program.html">http://www.mpi.nl/world/coll
 oquia/col-program.html</a>.\n      </p>\n    
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