Kevan Berg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105577 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevan Berg |
| PRENOMES | Kevan |
| SOBRENOME | Berg |
| ASSINATURA | BERG K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4059-3106 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data
The relation between morphology and spelling is an important source of evidence for theories of linguistic processing. In particular, spelling errors can help us assess the role of morphological structure in language users’ mental representations of words in authentic texts. Previous research suggests that some morphological units are more prone to spelling errors than others, partly depending on the degree to which they are perceived as separate…
Produktivität, Lexikalisierung und Rückbau
Introduction to the special issue morphological spelling
In a 2017 Language paper (Berg and Aronoff 2017), we demonstrated on structural linguistic grounds that the spelling of English derivational suffixes is largely morphographic.For example, the word-final coda /1s/ is reliably spelled as when the word is an adjective (the spelling is uniform) and as e.g. or otherwise.Compare nervous vs. service: at least in spoken American English, both words have identical final rhymes.That means the ous-spelling …
Is the English writing system phonographic or lexical/morphological? A new look at the spelling of stems
The graphemic distinctiveness of simple word stems in written English (henceforth stems) is usually discussed in terms of the discrimination of homophones: Two or more distinct stems that share a phonological form each have a unique graphemic form (e.g., meat / meet; pair / pear / pare) and in some cases we cannot ascribe the different spellings to etymology: scent 'should' be spelled sent given its history (borrowed from French sentir and Latin …
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns are often investigated using hapax legomena. In this paper, I argue that at least in diachronic investigations of productivity, a measure based on first attestations is a viable alternative to hapax-based measures. I show that such a measure is a more direct proxy to new words than hapax-based measures - it measures what we want to measure, which is not always true for the latter. I present a…
Die Graphematik der Morpheme im Deutschen und Englischen
How are words written in German and English? What features do they share in common, and what are their differences? The book approaches these questions from a morphologic-graphemic perspective. Accordingly, it addresses the graphemic structure of morphemes, and the issues of uniformity (how uniformly is a morpheme represented in writing?) and uniqueness (how distinctly does a spelling refer to one morpheme?).
Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling
Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling Kristian Berg and Mark Aronoff Geoffrey Sampson (2018) makes two claims in his response to our article about self-organization in spelling (Berg & Aronoff 2017): our explanation is redundant, and the phenomena we address can be better captured in more traditional terms. In our article, we showed first that the relation between graphemic form and morphological function is isomorphic for so…
Self-organization in the spelling of English suffixes
English spelling is unphonetic: the same sounds can be spelled in various and often idiosyncratic ways. It is also ungoverned: there is no authority guiding its development. However, it is not as arbitrary as one might conclude. Investigating the spelling of four derivational suffixes, we show that the spelling of English suffixes is quite consistent. Homophonous endings of morphologically simple words are spelled differently, keeping the suffix …
Multiple-factor classification of a human-modified forest landscape in the Hsuehshan Mountain Range, Taiwan
Morphological spellings in English
Morphologically motivated spellings in English are usually thought to be restricted to cases like 〈electric – electrician – electricity〉, where the stem final letter 〈c〉 is kept constant in spelling although the corresponding phoneme varies in spoken language. However, there are many more – and fundamentally different – spellings that refer to morphological information. We will show this by systematically going through the three major parts of mo…
Graphemic alternations in English as a reflex of morphological structure
Identifying graphematic units
It is a matter of debate how far the description of a writing system should be based on the units and categories of the respective spoken language. The present paper pursues the idea of relative autonomy: accordingly, writing systems should be based on as little phonological information as possible. Otherwise, existing structures may be superimposed by structures from the spoken language and not be discovered. As a necessary step in this directio…
The length hierarchy and the graphematic syllable
Minuscules of the Roman alphabet can be subcategorized into graphemes with length (for example 〈b〉) and graphemes without length (for example 〈o〉). While plosives, which correspond to graphemes with length, occur at the syllable edge, vowels, corresponding to graphemes without length, constitute the syllable core. Based on these observations, a length hierarchy is established in which the feature ‘length’ becomes scalar. This hierarchy operates o…
The Fine Scale Ethnotaxa Classification of Millets in Southern India
This research explores variation in minor millets in the context of traditional knowledge (TK) and scientific knowledge (SK), including ethnobotany genomics, in southern India. In order to perceive biodiversity, we need to take a closer look at the natural variation among species within the context of existing classifications using both TK and SK. Malayali informants of the Kolli Hills in India were surveyed using 174 millet samples. We also coll…
Self-organization in the spelling of English suffixes
English spelling is unphonetic: the same sounds can be spelled in various and often idiosyncratic ways. It is also ungoverned: there is no authority guiding its development. However, it is not as arbitrary as one might conclude. Investigating the spelling of four derivational suffixes, we show that the spelling of English suffixes is quite consistent. Homophonous endings of morphologically simple words are spelled differently, keeping the suffix …
Graphemic alternations in English as a reflex of morphological structure
Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling
Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling Kristian Berg and Mark Aronoff Geoffrey Sampson (2018) makes two claims in his response to our article about self-organization in spelling (Berg & Aronoff 2017): our explanation is redundant, and the phenomena we address can be better captured in more traditional terms. In our article, we showed first that the relation between graphemic form and morphological function is isomorphic for so…
Is the English writing system phonographic or lexical/morphological? A new look at the spelling of stems
The graphemic distinctiveness of simple word stems in written English (henceforth stems) is usually discussed in terms of the discrimination of homophones: Two or more distinct stems that share a phonological form each have a unique graphemic form (e.g., meat / meet; pair / pear / pare) and in some cases we cannot ascribe the different spellings to etymology: scent 'should' be spelled sent given its history (borrowed from French sentir and Latin …
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns are often investigated using hapax legomena. In this paper, I argue that at least in diachronic investigations of productivity, a measure based on first attestations is a viable alternative to hapax-based measures. I show that such a measure is a more direct proxy to new words than hapax-based measures - it measures what we want to measure, which is not always true for the latter. I present a…
The length hierarchy and the graphematic syllable
Minuscules of the Roman alphabet can be subcategorized into graphemes with length (for example 〈b〉) and graphemes without length (for example 〈o〉). While plosives, which correspond to graphemes with length, occur at the syllable edge, vowels, corresponding to graphemes without length, constitute the syllable core. Based on these observations, a length hierarchy is established in which the feature ‘length’ becomes scalar. This hierarchy operates o…
The Fine Scale Ethnotaxa Classification of Millets in Southern India
This research explores variation in minor millets in the context of traditional knowledge (TK) and scientific knowledge (SK), including ethnobotany genomics, in southern India. In order to perceive biodiversity, we need to take a closer look at the natural variation among species within the context of existing classifications using both TK and SK. Malayali informants of the Kolli Hills in India were surveyed using 174 millet samples. We also coll…
Identifying graphematic units
It is a matter of debate how far the description of a writing system should be based on the units and categories of the respective spoken language. The present paper pursues the idea of relative autonomy: accordingly, writing systems should be based on as little phonological information as possible. Otherwise, existing structures may be superimposed by structures from the spoken language and not be discovered. As a necessary step in this directio…
Graphemic alternations in English as a reflex of morphological structure
Morphological spellings in English
Morphologically motivated spellings in English are usually thought to be restricted to cases like 〈electric – electrician – electricity〉, where the stem final letter 〈c〉 is kept constant in spelling although the corresponding phoneme varies in spoken language. However, there are many more – and fundamentally different – spellings that refer to morphological information. We will show this by systematically going through the three major parts of mo…
Multiple-factor classification of a human-modified forest landscape in the Hsuehshan Mountain Range, Taiwan
Self-organization in the spelling of English suffixes
English spelling is unphonetic: the same sounds can be spelled in various and often idiosyncratic ways. It is also ungoverned: there is no authority guiding its development. However, it is not as arbitrary as one might conclude. Investigating the spelling of four derivational suffixes, we show that the spelling of English suffixes is quite consistent. Homophonous endings of morphologically simple words are spelled differently, keeping the suffix …
Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling
Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling Kristian Berg and Mark Aronoff Geoffrey Sampson (2018) makes two claims in his response to our article about self-organization in spelling (Berg & Aronoff 2017): our explanation is redundant, and the phenomena we address can be better captured in more traditional terms. In our article, we showed first that the relation between graphemic form and morphological function is isomorphic for so…
Die Graphematik der Morpheme im Deutschen und Englischen
How are words written in German and English? What features do they share in common, and what are their differences? The book approaches these questions from a morphologic-graphemic perspective. Accordingly, it addresses the graphemic structure of morphemes, and the issues of uniformity (how uniformly is a morpheme represented in writing?) and uniqueness (how distinctly does a spelling refer to one morpheme?).
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns are often investigated using hapax legomena. In this paper, I argue that at least in diachronic investigations of productivity, a measure based on first attestations is a viable alternative to hapax-based measures. I show that such a measure is a more direct proxy to new words than hapax-based measures - it measures what we want to measure, which is not always true for the latter. I present a…
Introduction to the special issue morphological spelling
In a 2017 Language paper (Berg and Aronoff 2017), we demonstrated on structural linguistic grounds that the spelling of English derivational suffixes is largely morphographic.For example, the word-final coda /1s/ is reliably spelled as when the word is an adjective (the spelling is uniform) and as e.g. or otherwise.Compare nervous vs. service: at least in spoken American English, both words have identical final rhymes.That means the ous-spelling …
Is the English writing system phonographic or lexical/morphological? A new look at the spelling of stems
The graphemic distinctiveness of simple word stems in written English (henceforth stems) is usually discussed in terms of the discrimination of homophones: Two or more distinct stems that share a phonological form each have a unique graphemic form (e.g., meat / meet; pair / pear / pare) and in some cases we cannot ascribe the different spellings to etymology: scent 'should' be spelled sent given its history (borrowed from French sentir and Latin …
Produktivität, Lexikalisierung und Rückbau
Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data
The relation between morphology and spelling is an important source of evidence for theories of linguistic processing. In particular, spelling errors can help us assess the role of morphological structure in language users’ mental representations of words in authentic texts. Previous research suggests that some morphological units are more prone to spelling errors than others, partly depending on the degree to which they are perceived as separate…
Linguistics (10 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 obras) · Spelling (6 obras) · History (4 obras) · Lexicography and Language Studies (4 obras) · Linguistic research and analysis (4 obras) · Mathematics (4 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 obras)