Browsing Research publications by Author "Murphy, V."
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How the constraints on English compound production might be learnt from the linguistic input : evidence from 4 connectionist models
Hayes, J.; Murphy, V.; Davey, N.; Smith, Pamela (2003)Native English speakers include irregular plurals in English noun-noun compounds (e.g. mice chaser) more frequently than regular plurals (e.g. *rats chaser) (Gordon, 1985). This dissociation in inflectional morphology has ... -
Input driven constraints on plurals in English noun-noun compounds
Hayes, J.; Murphy, V.; Davey, N.; Smith, Pamela (2003)Native English speakers include irregular plurals in English noun-noun compounds (e.g. mice chaser) more frequently than regular plurals (e.g. *rats chaser) (Gordon, 1985). This dissociation in inflectional morphology has ... -
Modality effects in compounding with English inflectional morphology
Smith, Pamela; Murphy, V.; Hayes, Jennifer A. (2005)The treatment of plural morphemes in English noun-noun compounds is significant because it provides a test case for competing theories of language acquisition and representation. Even when the first noun in a compound ... -
Plural morphology in compounding is not good evidence to support the dual mechanism model
Hayes, J.; Murphy, V.; Peters, L.; Smith, Pamela; Davey, N. (2001)The compounding phenomena is considered to be good evidence to support the dual mechanism model of morphological processing (Pinker & Prince, 1992). However evidence from initial neural net modeling has shown that a single ... -
Processing English compounds in the first and second language : the influence of the middle morpheme
Murphy, V.; Hayes, J. (2010)Native English speakers tend to exclude regular plural inflection when producing English noun-noun compounds (e.g., rat-eater not rats-eater) while allowing irregular plural inflection within compounds (e.g., mice-eater) ... -
The /s/ morpheme and the compounding phenomenon in English.
Hayes, J.; Murphy, V.; Davey, N.; Smith, P.; Peters, L. (2002)Compound words with irregular plural nouns in first position (e.g. mice-eater) are produced far more frequently than compound words with regular plural nouns in first position (e.g. *rats-eater), (Gordon, 1985). ... -
Why will rat's go where rats will not
Hayes, J.; Murphy, V.; Davey, N.; Smith, Pamela; Peters, L. (2002)Experimental evidence indicates that regular plurals are nearly always omitted from English compounds (e.g., rats-eater) while irregular plurals may be included within these structures (e.g., mice-chaser). This phenomenon ...