In this paper we address the problem of understanding when a verbal subgroup of a finite group is p-nilpotent, with p a prime, that is, when all its elements of p′-order determine a subgroup. We ...provide two p-nilpotency criteria, one for the terms of the lower central series of any finite group and one for the terms of the derived series of any finite soluble group, which relies on arithmetic properties related to the order of products of commutators.
The purpose of this study is to examine factors that influence students' reading of derived words. Recent research suggests that the lexical quality of a derived word depends on the familiarity of ...the word, its morphemic constituents (i.e., base word and affixes), and the frequency with which the base word appears in other words (i.e., members of the same word family or family frequency). On the premise that better and more experienced readers have higher quality lexical representations, we explore the extent to which accuracy of reading derived words by 4th and 6th graders is related to measures of familiarity, including derived and base word frequencies, family size, average family frequency, and word length. The results of an exploratory factor analysis indicated that these measures formed two factors, one representing morphemic constitution and the second representing exposure to the word family; both factors accounted for significant variance in the students' derived word reading. Comparisons of sets of derived words contrasted on familiarity properties showed that performance on derived words, overall, is better for 6th than 4th graders and for good than poor readers. On the measures of family frequency and family size, there were significant discrepancies between grade level and reading ability and frequency characteristics. These add support to the view that morphemic analysis and wide reading experience contribute to derived word reading.
Predmet raziskave predstavljajo semantika, produktivnost in ustaljenost besedotvornih struktur in razmerij, tema raziskave je kulturno-kognitivni potencial besedotvorne vrednosti besede, cilj ...razprave pa preučitev kulturnih vidikov kategorizacije vedenj s tvorjenkami. Razprava nadaljuje znanstveno diskusijo o kulturno-kognitivnem potencialu tvorjenk, začeto v delih A. Wierbicke, R. W. Browna, M. Forda, E. S. Kubrjakove idr.
Event-related potentials were recorded to examine the time course of the neural processing of spoken (i) existing derived words, (ii) morphologically legal, and (iii) illegal pseudowords in the ...Finnish language. The stimuli were matched by (complex) uniqueness/deviation points and event-related potentials were time-locked to stimulus onset and suffix onset. Illegal pseudowords elicited a larger negativity than existing words approximately 300 ms after suffix onset, suggesting a difficulty to semantically integrate morphemes. The magnitude of the negativity effect was similar for legal pseudowords and existing words, reflecting successful licensing and integration of morphemes for legal pseudowords. The results suggest parallel full-form and morpheme-based processing of spoken derived stimuli and emphasize the role of semantic interpretability in morphological parsing.
This paper is a contrastive analysis of the structural properties of English and Romanian truncated names. Name truncation is considered to be a word-formation process and is analyzed from the ...perspective of Prosodic Morphology. The contrastive analysis of the structure of English and Romanian name truncations focuses on the phonological requirements which these have to satisfy. It is shown that linguistically significant generalizations about the structure of truncated names in both languages can only be formulated in terms of units of the prosodic hierarchy. The paper also looks into the issue of prosodic minimality in the two languages. The size of truncated names is therefore examined in light of the correlation between the minimal prosodic word and the stress foot of English and Romanian respectively. The form of English name truncations is consistent with its stress foot. In the case of Romanian, which has a different stress foot, the size of truncated names shows that only derived words are subject to a prosodic minimality constraint. Adapted from the source document
We investigated the lexical representation of morphologically complex words in French using a cross-modal priming experiment. We asked if the lexical representation for derivationally suffixed and ...prefixed words is morphologically structured and how this relates to the phonological transparency of the surface relationship between stem and affix. Overall we observed a clear effect of the morphological structure for derived words, an effect that is not explicable by a formal effect. Prefixed words prime their stems, even when they have a phonologically opaque relationship, and a prefixed word primes another prefixed word derived from the same stem. However, suffixed words prime their stems only if their relationship is phonologically transparent. Two suffixed words derived from the same stem prime each other. These two latter results differ from those observed in English by Marslen-Wilson, Tyler, Waksler, and Older (1994). We argue that it is the specific properties of the language, such as rhythm, that could explain the differences between the results observed for the two languages and we propose a model where prefixed and suffixed words are decomposed at different stages during their identification process.
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