Gary Libben
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1691900 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gary Libben |
| NOMBRES | Gary |
| APELLIDO | Libben |
| FIRMA | LIBBEN G |
| AFILIACIONES | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8609-2166 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What does the general public want to know about language?
This study investigates how nonexperts conceptualize linguistics and what they most want to know about language. We recruited 812 English-speaking participants from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom via Prolific to complete four open-ended surveys ( N = 406 on perceived professional foci; N = 406 on desired research topics). All responses were segmented into 2,684 statements and analyzed with unsupervised natural language processi…
Persian compounds in the mental lexicon
Compound words exhibit properties of both single words and phrases, raising the question of the extent to which compounds are processed as single units or as word combinations. Most studies have addressed this in Germanic languages (English, German and Dutch) which have the similar compound structure of modifier-head ordering. To see whether this limits our understanding of compound word processing and to examine compound decomposition in another…
How the Chinese writing system can reveal the fundamentals of hierarchical lexical structure
Power and Positivity
Politicians are skilled language users who deploy words strategically and pay close attention to the emotions that those words evoke. We examined the emotional characteristics of over 92 million words spoken by Canadian Members of Parliament between 2006 and 2021. The analysis brought together the Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert (Behav. Res., 2013, 45, 1191–1207) database of valence (positivity) ratings for English and the Canadian Hansard, whi…
Textual Effects in Compound Processing
We sought to move beyond single word and sentence processing experiments in order to examine textual effects on the processing of compound words in English. We developed minimal texts (sentences pairs that together constitute a story) that had neutral, semantic or lexical relations between the last word of the first sentence and the second word of the second sentence (which was always a compound noun). This generated minimal text triplets that di…
The quantum metaphor and the organization of words in the mind
The mental lexicon has served as an almost ideal meeting ground for the cognitive sciences. In order for research on lexical processing to fulfill its potential to provide the elusive links among brain, cognition and culture, it is necessary to re-examine the view that the mental lexicon is a knowledge store of discrete lexical items. I suggest that metaphors from quantum physics, in particular the notions of wave/particle duality and superpositi…
Morphonotactic and phonotactic processing in German-speaking adults
Helping a crocodile to learn German plurals
Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles
This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; i.e., frequently recurring strings of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed holistically. Three self-paced reading experiments compared sentences containing LBs (e.g.,in the middle of the) and matched control sentence fragments (e.g.,in the front of the). LBs and sentences containing LBs were read faster than the control sentence fragments i…
Everything is Psycholinguistics
Compound words allow us to investigate lexical storage, retrieval, and interpretation. The role of storage and computation in compound processing is reviewed. It is claimed that morphological processing is automatic and obligatory, and that multi-morphemic words require resolution of a conflict between whole-word and constituent activation. This leads to the conclusion that morphological constituents are created through morphological processing s…
Probability in the Grammar of German and Dutch
This study addresses the possibility that interfixes in multiconstituent nominal compounds in German and Dutch are functional as markers of immediate constituent structure. We report a lexical statistical survey of interfixation in the lexicons of German and Dutch which shows that all interfixes of German and one interfix of Dutch are significantly more likely to appear at the major constituent boundary than expected under chance conditions. A se…
Compound fracture
A Case of Obligatory Access to Morphological Constituents
This case study reports on a patient RS who showed obligatory and automatic access to the constituents of all English compounds. She would thus interpret the compound blueprint as ‘a print that is blue’. She also showed interpretations that suggested a blending of the whole-word and decomposed meanings of compounds. The compound seahorse was interpreted as ‘a small horse that swims’. It is argued that her behaviour presents evidence in favour of …
Are morphological structures computed during word recognition
Noam Chomsky
Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles
This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; i.e., frequently recurring strings of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed holistically. Three self-paced reading experiments compared sentences containing LBs (e.g.,in the middle of the) and matched control sentence fragments (e.g.,in the front of the). LBs and sentences containing LBs were read faster than the control sentence fragments i…
Noam Chomsky
Morphonotactic and phonotactic processing in German-speaking adults
The quantum metaphor and the organization of words in the mind
The mental lexicon has served as an almost ideal meeting ground for the cognitive sciences. In order for research on lexical processing to fulfill its potential to provide the elusive links among brain, cognition and culture, it is necessary to re-examine the view that the mental lexicon is a knowledge store of discrete lexical items. I suggest that metaphors from quantum physics, in particular the notions of wave/particle duality and superpositi…
Probability in the Grammar of German and Dutch
This study addresses the possibility that interfixes in multiconstituent nominal compounds in German and Dutch are functional as markers of immediate constituent structure. We report a lexical statistical survey of interfixation in the lexicons of German and Dutch which shows that all interfixes of German and one interfix of Dutch are significantly more likely to appear at the major constituent boundary than expected under chance conditions. A se…
How the Chinese writing system can reveal the fundamentals of hierarchical lexical structure
Are morphological structures computed during word recognition
Noam Chomsky
A Case of Obligatory Access to Morphological Constituents
This case study reports on a patient RS who showed obligatory and automatic access to the constituents of all English compounds. She would thus interpret the compound blueprint as ‘a print that is blue’. She also showed interpretations that suggested a blending of the whole-word and decomposed meanings of compounds. The compound seahorse was interpreted as ‘a small horse that swims’. It is argued that her behaviour presents evidence in favour of …
Are morphological structures computed during word recognition
Compound fracture
Probability in the Grammar of German and Dutch
This study addresses the possibility that interfixes in multiconstituent nominal compounds in German and Dutch are functional as markers of immediate constituent structure. We report a lexical statistical survey of interfixation in the lexicons of German and Dutch which shows that all interfixes of German and one interfix of Dutch are significantly more likely to appear at the major constituent boundary than expected under chance conditions. A se…
Everything is Psycholinguistics
Compound words allow us to investigate lexical storage, retrieval, and interpretation. The role of storage and computation in compound processing is reviewed. It is claimed that morphological processing is automatic and obligatory, and that multi-morphemic words require resolution of a conflict between whole-word and constituent activation. This leads to the conclusion that morphological constituents are created through morphological processing s…
Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles
This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; i.e., frequently recurring strings of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed holistically. Three self-paced reading experiments compared sentences containing LBs (e.g.,in the middle of the) and matched control sentence fragments (e.g.,in the front of the). LBs and sentences containing LBs were read faster than the control sentence fragments i…
Helping a crocodile to learn German plurals
Morphonotactic and phonotactic processing in German-speaking adults
The quantum metaphor and the organization of words in the mind
The mental lexicon has served as an almost ideal meeting ground for the cognitive sciences. In order for research on lexical processing to fulfill its potential to provide the elusive links among brain, cognition and culture, it is necessary to re-examine the view that the mental lexicon is a knowledge store of discrete lexical items. I suggest that metaphors from quantum physics, in particular the notions of wave/particle duality and superpositi…
Power and Positivity
Politicians are skilled language users who deploy words strategically and pay close attention to the emotions that those words evoke. We examined the emotional characteristics of over 92 million words spoken by Canadian Members of Parliament between 2006 and 2021. The analysis brought together the Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert (Behav. Res., 2013, 45, 1191–1207) database of valence (positivity) ratings for English and the Canadian Hansard, whi…
Textual Effects in Compound Processing
We sought to move beyond single word and sentence processing experiments in order to examine textual effects on the processing of compound words in English. We developed minimal texts (sentences pairs that together constitute a story) that had neutral, semantic or lexical relations between the last word of the first sentence and the second word of the second sentence (which was always a compound noun). This generated minimal text triplets that di…
How the Chinese writing system can reveal the fundamentals of hierarchical lexical structure
Persian compounds in the mental lexicon
Compound words exhibit properties of both single words and phrases, raising the question of the extent to which compounds are processed as single units or as word combinations. Most studies have addressed this in Germanic languages (English, German and Dutch) which have the similar compound structure of modifier-head ordering. To see whether this limits our understanding of compound word processing and to examine compound decomposition in another…
What does the general public want to know about language?
This study investigates how nonexperts conceptualize linguistics and what they most want to know about language. We recruited 812 English-speaking participants from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom via Prolific to complete four open-ended surveys ( N = 406 on perceived professional foci; N = 406 on desired research topics). All responses were segmented into 2,684 statements and analyzed with unsupervised natural language processi…
Linguistics (14 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Natural language processing (9 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (8 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (8 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Cognition (5 obras)