Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

Recent research on the acoustic realization of affixes has revealed differences between
phonologically homophonous affixes, eg the different kinds of final [s] and [z] in English …

Trial-to-trial effects have been found in a number of studies, indicating that processing a
stimulus influences responses in subsequent trials. A special case are priming effects which …

Naive discriminative learning (NDL) and linear discriminative learning (LDL) are simple
computational algorithms for lexical learning and lexical processing. Both NDL and LDL …

Both localist and connectionist models, based on experimental results obtained for English
and French, assume that the degree of semantic compositionality of a morphologically …

In this chapter we introduce the Generalized Additive Model (GAM). GAMs enable the
analyst to investigate non-linear functional relations between a response variable and one …

How language users become able to process forms they have never encountered in input is
central to our understanding of language cognition. A range of models, including rule-based …

Orthography–semantics consistency (OSC) is a measure that quantifies the degree of
semantic relatedness between a word and its orthographic relatives. OSC is computed as …

Full-fledged grammatical article systems as attested in Germanic and Romance languages
are rather uncommon from a typological perspective. The frequency with which articles …