Master of Arts / This work is concerned with the nature of morphemes. It attempts to define and characterise 'morpheme', and provide practical tools for the analysis of morphemes. The work drew its instigation from the practical problems in morphology, in which the phonological and semantic relationships between morphological objects did not parallel the relationships between the roles of those objects in word formation. These relationships are to a large extent not identifiable or describable within the existing approaches to morphology. This work seeks to identify and describe these relationships as the relationships between morphemic entities. In other words, it focuses on morphemes as morphemes, rather than as the atoms of word formation, and seeks to characterise them from that perspective.

Master of Arts / This work is concerned with the nature of morphemes. It attempts to define and characterise 'morpheme', and provide practical tools for the analysis of morphemes. The work drew its instigation from the practical problems in morphology, in which the phonological and semantic relationships between morphological objects did not parallel the relationships between the roles of those objects in word formation. These relationships are to a large extent not identifiable or describable within the existing approaches to morphology. This work seeks to identify and describe these relationships as the relationships between morphemic entities. In other words, it focuses on morphemes as morphemes, rather than as the atoms of word formation, and seeks to characterise them from that perspective.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 1992. / Title from title screen (viewed 25 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the Dept. of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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This study presents an experimental investigation of morpheme decomposition in the visual recognition of English compounds. It discusses linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives of the mental lexicon and the role of compound recognition data in the formulation of hypotheses about lexical access and representations. / In a series of three experiments it was found that existing compounds such as "warehouse" appear to be represented in the mental lexicon as morphologically-complex full forms. On the other hand, novel compounds such as "winehouse" appear to be decomposed into their constituent morphemes in the process of word recognition. It was also found that the constraints of English orthography play a significant role in the interpretation of novel compounds. The locus of the orthographic effect, however, appears to be post-lexical. / The results of this study of compound recognition are consistent with a view of the lexicon as a self-reorganizing store of knowledge, which is characterized by cost-free storage and access.

M.A. (African Languages) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Tsang Yiu Kei. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-92). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.5 / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.7 / Lexical access in speech comprehension --- p.9 / Morphemic processing in Chinese --- p.12 / Semantic ambiguity at the morpheme level --- p.15 / Visual world paradigm --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Experiment 1 --- p.22 / Method --- p.22 / Results --- p.27 / Discussion --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Experiment 2 --- p.39 / Method --- p.41 / Results --- p.45 / Discussion --- p.56 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- General Discussion --- p.67 / The role of morpheme in Chinese speech --- p.67 / Ambiguity resolution and the neural underpinnings --- p.75 / Interactivity in speech processing --- p.78 / References --- p.82 / Appendix A: Materials used in Experiment 1 --- p.93 / Appendix B: Materials used in Experiment 2 --- p.95

M.A. (African Languages) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Yim, Nga Kin Edward. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-53). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Table Captions --- p.v / Figure Captions --- p.vi / Abstract --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / "The ""Awareness"" Approach to Tapping Influence of Morphemes" --- p.2 / "Inadequacies of the ""Awareness"" Approach" --- p.6 / "The ""Processing"" Approach to Tapping Influence of Morphemes" --- p.7 / Measuring Eye Movements in Linguistic Research --- p.10 / The Present Study --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.15 / Participants --- p.15 / Stimuli and Apparatus --- p.16 / Design and Procedure --- p.19 / Data Analyses --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.22 / Literacy Tasks --- p.22 / Experimental Session 1 (Picture) --- p.23 / Experimental Session 2 (Printed Words) --- p.28 / Comparison between Picture and Printed Word session --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.34 / Reliability and Validity of the Measure --- p.34 / Grade Differences in Morphemic Processing --- p.35 / Mechanisms of Morphemic Ambiguity Resolution and Speech Processing in Children --- p.38 / Stimulus Differences --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Conclusion --- p.43 / Theoretical and Methodological Contributions --- p.43 / Limitations and Future Directions --- p.44 / References --- p.46 / Appendix --- p.54

The purpose of this study was to determine whether language-disordered four-year-old children and those with a history of language delay but currently normal functioning would have acquired a significantly lower percentage of 13 grammatical morphemes than children of the same age with normal language skills. Research has shown that there is a consistency of order in which these morphemes are acquired in children with normal language ability. studies have also shown that while language disordered children acquire these grammatical morphemes in a similar order, the process is slowed down. Language disordered children have difficulty with grammatical morpheme development. Not found in the research is information regarding grammatical morpheme development for children with normal language skills but a history of language delay. Does grammatical morpheme development still pose a problem for these children? Is grammatical morpheme development for this population consistent in terms of order of acquisition with normal and language disordered children? Does acquisition of these morphemes still show deficiencies when language skills have progressed into the normal range? Do patterns of grammatical morpheme development demonstrate distinct features for these children? These are the questions that the present investigation sought to answer.