Ingo Plag

Biographic Data

ID741925
NAMEIngo Plag
GIVEN NAMESIngo
FAMILY NAMEPlag
SIGNATUREPLAG I
AFFILIATIONSHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
ORCID0000-0002-3545-3515
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS135
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Modeling the role of prefixation in determining stress assignment in English verbs

    Open AccessIngo Plag, Sabine Arndt-Lappe et al.ARTICLEMorphology2026References: 40

    Most accounts of English stress assume that it is determined by a combination of morphological and phonological factors. Two main factors have been proposed to determine the patterns of observed stress in English verbs with no productive morphology: whether the verb is prefixed, and the weight of the final syllable. This paper tests whether stress assignment to English verbs can be accounted for without recourse to abstract morphological properti…

  • Measuring the similarity between languages

    Open AccessLara Rüter, Ingo PlagARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2025

    In typology, statistical methods have been successfully used to assess similarities and differences between languages. In creole studies, the use of quantitative methods has been discussed controversially. In the debate many methodological aspects of the statistical models used have been criticized (e.g. Meakins 2022 ; Bakker 2023 ). This paper presents an investigation of two methodological problems that have not been critically looked at so far…

  • The orthographic representation of a word's morphological structure

    Open AccessDominiek Sandra, Dorit Ravid et al.ARTICLEMorphology2024References: 42

    In this paper we present a review of the literature on the role of a word's morphological structure in written language processing, with an emphasis on spelling. First, we describe that many orthographies have opted for a representation of a word's morphological structure. Second, we discuss experiments that have demonstrated the importance of a word's morphological structure in reading, both in isolated word recognition experiments (so-called bl…

  • Rethinking First Language-Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency

    Open AccessNoam Siegelman, Irina Elgort et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2024Cited by: 1References: 62

    This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary, spelling, and grammar, as well as rich demographic and language background data. We first demonstrate hi…

  • Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic

    Open AccessGhattas Eid, Ingo PlagARTICLELingua2023

    Epenthesis in Maaloula Aramaic can be analyzed from a syllable-based perspective. • Maaloula Aramaic allows only three syllable types: CV, CVV, and CVC. • Vowel epenthesis applies so that the stray consonants can be re-syllabified. • Epenthesis doesn't apply in words with specific segmental and prosodic properties. • Maaloula Aramaic shows features of both VC- and C-dialects of Arabic

  • The semantics of conversion nouns and - ing nominalizations

    Open AccessRochelle Lieber, Ingo PlagARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2021Cited by: 3References: 6

    This paper addresses a fundamental problem of derivational morphology: which meanings are possible for the words of a given morphological category, which forms can be chosen to express a given meaning, and what is the role of the base in these mappings of form and meaning? In a broad empirical study we examine the extent to which two types of nominalizations in English – conversion nouns and - ing nominalizations – can express either eventive or …

  • How morphological structure affects phonetic realisation in English compound nouns

    Open AccessMelanie J Bell, Sonia Ben Hedia et al.ARTICLEMorphology2021Cited by: 9References: 50

    Many studies have shown that syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects of morphological structure may have an impact on the phonetic realisation of complex words (e.g. Cohen 2014a,b; Kuperman et al. 2007; Lee-Kim et al. 2013; Lõo et al. 2018; Plag et al. 2017; Schuppler et al. 2012; Smith et al. 2012; Sproat and Fujimura 1993; Zimmermann 2016, among many others). The majority of these studies have been concerned with affixes, often focusing on the aco…

  • The Relationship of Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria

    Open AccessOgechi Florence Agbo, Ingo PlagARTICLEJournal of Language Contact2020

    Deuber (2006) investigated variation in spoken Nigerian Pidgin data by educated speakers and found no evidence for a continuum of lects between Nigerian Pidgin and English. Many speakers, however, speak both languages, and both are in close contact with each other, which keeps the question of the nature of their relationship on the agenda. This paper investigates 67 conversations in Nigerian English by educated speakers as they occur in the Inter…

  • Phonetic effects of morphology and context

    Open AccessFabian Tomaschek, Ingo Plag et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2019Cited by: 12References: 10

    Recent research on the acoustic realization of affixes has revealed differences between phonologically homophonous affixes, e.g. the different kinds of final [s] and [z] in English (Plag, Homann & Kunter 2017, Zimmermann 2016a). Such results are unexpected and unaccounted for in widely accepted post-Bloomfieldian item-and-arrangement models (Hockett 1954), which separate lexical and post-lexical phonology, and in models which interpret phonetic e…

  • Gemination and degemination in English prefixation

    Open AccessSonia Ben Hedia, Ingo PlagARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2017Cited by: 9References: 24

    This paper addresses the problem of morpho-phonological variability and the role of phonetic detail in morphologically complex words by investigating the gemination behavior of the English prefixes un- and in-. Traditionally, it is assumed that un- geminates while in- degeminates, but empirical studies are rare and not conclusive. This paper presents the first study that uses data from natural speech (Switchboard Corpus, Godfrey and Holliman 1997…

  • Morphological embedding and phonetic reduction

    Open AccessGero Kunter, Ingo PlagARTICLEMorphology2016Cited by: 3References: 41

  • Note by the editors

    Open AccessIngo PlagARTICLEMorphology2016

  • Homophony and morphology

    Open AccessIngo Plag, Julia Homann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2015Cited by: 18References: 3

    Recent research has shown that homophonous lexemes show systematic phonetic differences (e.g. Gahl 2008, Drager 2011), with important consequences for models of speech production such as Levelt et al. (1999). These findings also pose the question of whether similar differences hold for allegedly homophonous affixes (instead of free lexemes). Earlier experimental research found some evidence that morphemic and non-morphemic sounds may differ acous…

  • Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages

    Ingo PlagBOOKPhonology and Morphology of…2014

  • The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

    L Bauer, Rochelle Lieber et al.BOOKOxford Reference Guide to English…2013

    This volume presents a data-rich description of English inflection and word-formation. Based on large corpora including the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus, it provides a comprehensive treatment of contemporary English morphology that includes both inflection and word-formation. It covers not only well-studied topics such as compounding, conversion, and the inflection and derivation of nouns and verbs, but …

  • Morphologie lesen

    Ursula Bredel, Christina Noack et al.CHAPTERDie Schnittstelle Von Morphologie…2013

  • Prominence in Triconstituent Compounds

    Open AccessKristina Kösling, Gero Kunter et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2013Cited by: 6References: 41

    According to the widely accepted Lexical Category Prominence Rule (LCPR), prominence assignment to triconstituent compounds depends on the branching direction. Left-branching compounds, that is, compounds with a left-hand complex constituent, are held to have highest prominence on the left-most constituent, whereas right-branching compounds have highest prominence on the second of the three constituents. The LCPR is, however, only poorly empirica…

  • Structure of Creole Words

    Ingo Plag, Parth Bhatt et al.BOOKStructure of Creole Words2012

  • Informativeness is a determinant of compound stress in English

    Open AccessMelanie J Bell, Ingo PlagARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2012Cited by: 7References: 10

    There have been claims in the literature that the variability of compound stress assignment in English can be explained with reference to the informativeness of the constituents (e.g. Bolinger 1972, Ladd 1984). Until now, however, large-scale empirical evidence for this idea has been lacking. This paper addresses this deficit by investigating a large number of compounds taken from the British National Corpus. It is the first study of compound str…

  • Creolization and Language Change

    Dany Adone, Ingo PlagBOOKCreolization and Language Change2011

  • Creolization and admixture

    Ingo PlagARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2011

    Proponents of a ‘feature pool’ approach to creolization (e.g. Mufwene 2001, Aboh & Ansaldo 2006) have claimed that the emergence of the new grammar is driven by the syntax-discourse prominence, markedness, and frequency of available features, with typological similarity or dissimilarity of the languages involved playing a crucial role in the competition and selection process. This paper takes a closer look at the predictions of a feature pool-bas…

  • Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles

    Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2011

    In creolist circles, there has been a a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties. This debate about the typological status of creole languages has severely suffered from a lack of systematic empirical study. This paper presents for the first time a number of large-scale empirical investigations of the status of creole la…

  • Acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in North American English

    Open AccessIngo Plag, Gero Kunter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2011Cited by: 7References: 28

  • Compound or phrase? Analogy in naming

    Open AccessBarbara Schlücker, Ingo PlagARTICLELingua2011Cited by: 5References: 23

  • Compound stress assignment by analogy

    Open AccessIngo PlagARTICLEZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft2010

    This paper tests the hypothesis that stress assignment to English compounds works on the basis of analogy. In particular, the role of the constituent family, i.e. the set of compounds that share the same right or left constituent with a given compound, is investigated. On the basis of large amounts of data from three different corpora it is shown that the tendency towards a certain kind of stress pattern within the constituent families of a given…