Andrea D Sims
Biographic Data
| ID | 777342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea D Sims |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sims |
| SIGNATURE | SIMS A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0239-3050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reconciling diverging frequency effects in inflectional defectiveness
In his study of defective Spanish verbs, Albright (2003) found speakers’ form judgments to be positively correlate with lexeme frequency. For defective French verbs, however, speakers’ judgments are negatively correlated with lexeme frequency (Copot & Sims 2025). What is the source of these diverging observations? We test the role of methodological choices by using Copot & Sims’s experimental design to investigate Spanish verbal defectiveness. Th…
Memory retrieval as a pressure towards chunking in morphological inflection
When producing morphologically complex words, speakers can draw on memorized examples of morphological structure that differ in specificity, ranging from word-specific information to broad generalizations. However, there is much that is not known about how memory retrieval operates in morphological production, particularly for languages with agglutinative structure, like Turkish. While it has long been suggested that item-specific memory does not…
The influence of prescriptivism on French verbal defectiveness
Words that speakers and dictionaries deem to be morphologically defective (and thus unacceptable) are often found in corpora, suggesting a disconnect between judgements about such words and usage of them. This paper explores the hypothesis that social and contextual factors may help explain why defective words are often attested despite speakers’ intuitions that they should not be. We carry out a study on French, proposing that some verbs convent…
Lexical processing and affix ordering
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Lexical processing and affix ordering
The influence of prescriptivism on French verbal defectiveness
Words that speakers and dictionaries deem to be morphologically defective (and thus unacceptable) are often found in corpora, suggesting a disconnect between judgements about such words and usage of them. This paper explores the hypothesis that social and contextual factors may help explain why defective words are often attested despite speakers’ intuitions that they should not be. We carry out a study on French, proposing that some verbs convent…
Reconciling diverging frequency effects in inflectional defectiveness
In his study of defective Spanish verbs, Albright (2003) found speakers’ form judgments to be positively correlate with lexeme frequency. For defective French verbs, however, speakers’ judgments are negatively correlated with lexeme frequency (Copot & Sims 2025). What is the source of these diverging observations? We test the role of methodological choices by using Copot & Sims’s experimental design to investigate Spanish verbal defectiveness. Th…
Memory retrieval as a pressure towards chunking in morphological inflection
When producing morphologically complex words, speakers can draw on memorized examples of morphological structure that differ in specificity, ranging from word-specific information to broad generalizations. However, there is much that is not known about how memory retrieval operates in morphological production, particularly for languages with agglutinative structure, like Turkish. While it has long been suggested that item-specific memory does not…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Affix (1 works) · Agglutinative language (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Chunking (psychology) (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Encoding (memory) (1 works) · Language Development and Disorders (1 works)