Introduction to the special issue morphological spelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4780228 |
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| Authors | Kevan Berg (0000-0003-4059-3106, University of Bonn, corresponding author), Kristian Berg, Mark Aronoff (0000-0001-8019-2249) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239-241 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Morphology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11525-021-09378-6 |
| OpenAlex | W3135320734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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 also unique in that it encodes morphological information ('this word here is an adjective, and it is probably morphologically complex').We also show that these morphological spellings emerged and regularized gradually over the last five centuries, without external guidance.The findings immediately lead to at least three questions
Linguistics · Sign language · Spelling · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Highly cited | No |
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