Aditi Lahiri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 741429 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aditi Lahiri |
| NOMBRES | Aditi |
| APELLIDO | Lahiri |
| FIRMA | LAHIRI A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0033-9106 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English
Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kol ó nie , English c ó lony , German Kolon íe compared with Germanic words Dutch w é duwe , English w í dow , German W í twe . We examined loans in medieval poetry based on our Middle Dutch verse corpus along with a brief survey of Middle Engl…
The effect of orthography on the visual processing of affixed words
The view that morphologically complex words are decomposed into constituent morphemes during lexical access has gained traction in the psycholinguistic literature, which in turn has had significant implications for theories of lexical organisation and processing. Nevertheless, the bulk of evidence for how morphologically complex Indo-European words are accessed and stored is based on based on Latinate scripts, where the orthography tends to be se…
Native prosodic structures constrain L2 word recognition
Bilingual word recognition is assumed to be modulated by a word's segmental and meaning similarity across languages, labelled cognate in psycholinguistics, usually conflating borrowed and inherited words. We conducted an ERP fragment priming study with Bengali-English bilinguals. English words borrowed into Bengali (doctor, Bengali: ['ɖaktar]) were compared with those which were not (river). The stimuli varied in fine metrical details, one-foot (…
Diachrony and Diachronica
In this second set of contributions on the 40th anniversary of Diachronica, seven historical linguists provide perspectives on the current state of the field and aims for the future. While the authors in issue 40.4 focused on the ideas that have structured the field – the actuation problem, the relationship between synchrony and diachrony, and how we do our work – this current set of contributions focus on method: what we do, how and why we do it…
Disambiguating Effects of Syllable Position and Neighborhood Size
The foot in the history of English
Dresher & Lahiri (1991) propose that Old English displays ‘metrical coherence’: different phonological processes are sensitive to the same metrical structure. We consider how English has dealt with challenges to metrical coherence. We show that the resolved moraic trochee, assumed to characterize the early Old English foot ( Bermúdez-Otero manuscript ; Goering 2016a , b ), became untenable after the shortening of unstressed vowels, arguing that t…
Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination
This study is concerned with how vowel alternation, in combination with and without orthographic reflection of the vowel change, affects lexical access and the discrimination of morphologically related forms. Bengali inflected verb forms provide an ideal test case, since present tense verb forms undergo phonologically conditioned, predictable vowel raising. The mid-to-high alternations, but not the low-to-mid ones, are represented in the orthogra…
Processing of literal and metaphorical meanings in polysemous verbs
Still ‘native’? Morphological processing in second-language-immersed speakers
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This paper investigates whether sustained immersion in a dominant second-language (L2) environment alters morphological processing strategies compared to those of L1-immersed speakers. Furthermore, we assess the methodological usefulness of a language-mode task in light of the validity of conducting native processing research on L2-immersed speakers. Design/methodology/approach: We use the design an…
Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon
Asymmetries in the processing of affixed words in Bengali
Prefixes and suffixes display distinctive linguistic behaviors. Not only does a crosslinguistic asymmetry exist between them in terms of structural properties, combinatorial constraints, and frequency, but there is also extensive evidence that prefixes and suffixes are processed differently. To further investigate the differences in how prefixes and suffixes are processed, we conducted five crossmodal priming experiments in Bengali, a language ri…
The Indian Subcontinent
This chapter provides brief descriptions of the basic intonational tunes and phrasing properties of some of the Indo-Aryan languages, including Bengali, Marathi, and Assamese, and also touches upon Dravidian languages such as Tamil and Telugu. The crucial issues governing the basic morphology of tunes include the expression of focus, question prosody, the possibilities of neutral prosody, and phrasing, including its role in the expression of focu…
Nonesuch phonemes in loanwords
Loanwords may or may not affect the phonological system of a language. Much of the loanword literature has focused on the adaptation of “foreign” contrasts to native systems; however, there are certain cases where languages appear to have borrowed new phonemes. We argue that loanwords alone cannot introduce a new phoneme into a language unless there are special circumstances. We examine three case studies of apparently borrowed “unusual” phonemic…
Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle Dutch
This paper attempts to determine a more precise timeline for the onset of Open Syllable Lengthening in Dutch. We examined two late 14th-century Brabantic texts in the Manuscript Marshall 29 (1375 AD), Mellibeus and Saladijn , and compared these with an older Brabantic text Lutgart to ascertain when exactly Open Syllable Lengthening originated in (Brabantic) Middle Dutch. A combination of diachronic correspondences and a careful examination of the…
Processing of Phonemic Consonant Length
Six cross-modal lexical decision tasks with priming probed listeners’ processing of the geminate–singleton contrast in Bengali, where duration alone leads to phonemic contrast ([pata] ‘leaf’ vs. [pat:a] ‘whereabouts’), in order to investigate the phonological representation of consonantal duration in the lexicon. Four form-priming experiments (auditory fragment primes and visual targets) were designed to investigate listeners’ sensitivity to segm…
Mutation in Breton verbs
Although word-initial consonants are highly salient cross-linguistically, the process of initial-consonant mutation has nonetheless continued to affect them in the Celtic languages. This paper investigates the use of the mixed mutation (MM) in Breton, following the progressive particle. Like all mutation, it naturally affects the phonology, but also gives (redundant) information for morphosyntax. Mutation is generally presumed to be a regular pro…
Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs
Tonal alternations in Norwegian compounds
Although Einar Haugen in his 1967 article 'On the rules of Norwegian tonality' stated that "compounds are the most difficult part of the morphology", it is precisely the distribution of word accent in compounds that provides us with insight into the morphophonological interactions of the language. In this article, we analyze compounds made up of all possible element and accent combinations, and show that by assuming a privative accent opposition …
Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Height Differences in English Dialects
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g., pin vs. pan), we compare a conflict versus non-conflict situation across English dialects. Based on dif…
Phonological phrasing in Germanic
There are contrary views on how phonological phrasing in Germanic is determined: either by surface syntax or by rhythmic principles (forming trochaic/dactylic or iambic/anapaestic groupings) or alternately by both depending on speech style (spontaneous/planned, casual/careful). It is shown in this paper that a host of historical developments in Germanic - having to do with cliticisation and the creation of new inflectional affixes from clitics, a…
Distinctive features
What Linguistic Universals Can Be True Of
Prosodic Preferences
Tonal accents and rhyme in 18th-century Swedish
In Modern Swedish certain groups of morphemes are systematically involved in word forms that would be expected to get Accent 2 but that surface with Accent 1. Thus, Swedish infinitives usually get Accent 2 ( grip-a ‘seize’), but in combination with certain prefixes, that were borrowed from Middle Low German, infinitives will always be Accent 1 ( be-grip-a ‘comprehend’). The dominance and systematic occurrence of Accent 1 suggests viewing it as th…
Bengali intonational phonology
The timing of geminate consonants
Distinctive features
Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs
Perception of consonant length
Crosslinguistic acoustic categorization of sibilants independent of phonological status
Phonological phrasing in Germanic
There are contrary views on how phonological phrasing in Germanic is determined: either by surface syntax or by rhythmic principles (forming trochaic/dactylic or iambic/anapaestic groupings) or alternately by both depending on speech style (spontaneous/planned, casual/careful). It is shown in this paper that a host of historical developments in Germanic - having to do with cliticisation and the creation of new inflectional affixes from clitics, a…
The Phonological Representation of [Voice] in Speech Perception
This paper examines to what extent phonological representations affect word identification. The contrast under investigation involves the interaction between voicing and vowel length in Dutch. Dutch has underlying contrasts both in obstruent voicing and in vowel length. The voicing contrast is neutralized on the surface in syllable-final position. Also, both long and short vowels are lengthened by some 25 msec when followed by medial voiced obstr…
A re-evaluation of the feature coronal
Acoustic properties for dental and alveolar stop consonants
Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon
Mutation in Breton verbs
Although word-initial consonants are highly salient cross-linguistically, the process of initial-consonant mutation has nonetheless continued to affect them in the Celtic languages. This paper investigates the use of the mixed mutation (MM) in Breton, following the progressive particle. Like all mutation, it naturally affects the phonology, but also gives (redundant) information for morphosyntax. Mutation is generally presumed to be a regular pro…
Asymmetries in the processing of affixed words in Bengali
Prefixes and suffixes display distinctive linguistic behaviors. Not only does a crosslinguistic asymmetry exist between them in terms of structural properties, combinatorial constraints, and frequency, but there is also extensive evidence that prefixes and suffixes are processed differently. To further investigate the differences in how prefixes and suffixes are processed, we conducted five crossmodal priming experiments in Bengali, a language ri…
Open Syllable Lengthening in West Germanic
Vowels in stressed syllables in the West Germanic languages—e.g. Middle English, Middle Dutch and Middle High German—were lengthened under certain circumstances. There have been two different explanations for this change. The traditional assumption is that a process of open syllable lengthening (OSL) was introduced to standardize the quantity of stressed syllables (Prokosch 1939, among others). The second, quite different, approach assumes that t…
Processing of Phonemic Consonant Length
Six cross-modal lexical decision tasks with priming probed listeners’ processing of the geminate–singleton contrast in Bengali, where duration alone leads to phonemic contrast ([pata] ‘leaf’ vs. [pat:a] ‘whereabouts’), in order to investigate the phonological representation of consonantal duration in the lexicon. Four form-priming experiments (auditory fragment primes and visual targets) were designed to investigate listeners’ sensitivity to segm…
Height Differences in English Dialects
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g., pin vs. pan), we compare a conflict versus non-conflict situation across English dialects. Based on dif…
Intermediate level of analysis
Diachronic and Synchronic Implications of Declension Shifts
A re-evaluation of the feature coronal
Acoustic properties for dental and alveolar stop consonants
The timing of geminate consonants
Perception of consonant length
Intermediate level of analysis
The mental representation of lexical form
Bengali intonational phonology
The Phonological Representation of [Voice] in Speech Perception
This paper examines to what extent phonological representations affect word identification. The contrast under investigation involves the interaction between voicing and vowel length in Dutch. Dutch has underlying contrasts both in obstruent voicing and in vowel length. The voicing contrast is neutralized on the surface in syllable-final position. Also, both long and short vowels are lengthened by some 25 msec when followed by medial voiced obstr…
Crosslinguistic acoustic categorization of sibilants independent of phonological status
Diachronic prosody
Open Syllable Lengthening in West Germanic
Vowels in stressed syllables in the West Germanic languages—e.g. Middle English, Middle Dutch and Middle High German—were lengthened under certain circumstances. There have been two different explanations for this change. The traditional assumption is that a process of open syllable lengthening (OSL) was introduced to standardize the quantity of stressed syllables (Prokosch 1939, among others). The second, quite different, approach assumes that t…
Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. A traditional umbrella category of change in systems is that of analogy. Somewhat less sanctioned, markedness is a basic relation shaping the structure of systems, in phonology as well as morphology.
Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. A traditional umbrella category of change in systems is that of analogy. Somewhat less sanctioned, markedness is a basic relation shaping the structure of systems, in phonology as well as morphology.
Lexical specification of tone in North Germanic
Accent 1 is very much accepted in the literature as the default tonal marker in Scandinavian languages. Consequently, stems and affixes are almost always specified for accent 2. Only rarely in some analyses is accent 1 specified for affixes, but never for stems. We believe that under these conditions, the resulting morphology/phonology interaction is rather complex, having to include special rules of accent marking, floating tones, deaccenting to…
Tones and loans in the history of Scandinavian
What Linguistic Universals Can Be True Of
Prosodic Preferences
Tonal accents and rhyme in 18th-century Swedish
In Modern Swedish certain groups of morphemes are systematically involved in word forms that would be expected to get Accent 2 but that surface with Accent 1. Thus, Swedish infinitives usually get Accent 2 ( grip-a ‘seize’), but in combination with certain prefixes, that were borrowed from Middle Low German, infinitives will always be Accent 1 ( be-grip-a ‘comprehend’). The dominance and systematic occurrence of Accent 1 suggests viewing it as th…
Height Differences in English Dialects
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g., pin vs. pan), we compare a conflict versus non-conflict situation across English dialects. Based on dif…
Phonological phrasing in Germanic
There are contrary views on how phonological phrasing in Germanic is determined: either by surface syntax or by rhythmic principles (forming trochaic/dactylic or iambic/anapaestic groupings) or alternately by both depending on speech style (spontaneous/planned, casual/careful). It is shown in this paper that a host of historical developments in Germanic - having to do with cliticisation and the creation of new inflectional affixes from clitics, a…
Distinctive features
Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Tonal alternations in Norwegian compounds
Although Einar Haugen in his 1967 article 'On the rules of Norwegian tonality' stated that "compounds are the most difficult part of the morphology", it is precisely the distribution of word accent in compounds that provides us with insight into the morphophonological interactions of the language. In this article, we analyze compounds made up of all possible element and accent combinations, and show that by assuming a privative accent opposition …
Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs
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