Chapter 4 Flashcards
Agglutinative language
: a language in which almost all words are formed by concatenation of
morphemes
Memory strength (resting activation level)
the relative strength of the representation of a word
or morphological pattern in the lexicon
Moderate word-form lexicon
the hypothesis that a speaker’s lexicon includes simple and
complex words, morphemes (or morphological patterns) and derived stems. Whether any
particular complex word is listed in the lexicon depends on a variety of factors
Neologism
a new lexeme that is attested, but had not previously been observed in the language
Portmanteau morphs
an affix or stem that cumulatively expresses two meanings that would be
expected to be expressed separately
Strict word-form lexicon
the hypothesis that a speaker’s mental dictionary lists both simple and complex words, regardless of whether the complex words have predictable meanings or form, but does not list affixes
Target (for agreement)
in syntax, the constituent whose properties are determined by the
properties of another constituent
Token frequency
a count of how frequently some structure is used in some sample of language
Absolute frequency
the raw count of how many times a word or phrase appears in a text or corpus
Relative frequency
the proportion of times that word or phrase appears compared to the total number of words in the text, essentially expressing the frequency as a percentage or ratio within the whole corpus.
