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Rule-Based Morphological Processing in a Second Language: A Behavioural Investigation
According to dual-system accounts of English past-tense processing, regular forms are decomposed into their
stem and affix (played=play+ed) based on an implicit linguistic rule, whereas irregular forms (kept) are
retrieved directly from the mental lexicon. In second language (L2) processing research, it has been suggested
that L2 learners do not have rule-based decomposing abilities, so they process regular past-tense forms similarly to irregular ones (Silva & Clahsen 2008), without applying the morphological rule. The present study investigates morphological processing of regular and irregular verbs in Greek-English L2 learners and native English speakers. In a masked-priming experiment with regular and irregular prime-target verb pairs (playedplay/kept-keep), native speakers showed priming effects for regular pairs, compared to unrelated pairs,
indicating decomposition; conversely, L2 learners showed inhibitory effects. At the same time, both groups
revealed priming effects for irregular pairs. We discuss these findings in the light of available theories on L2
morphological processing
Masked Morphological Priming with Past-Tense Verbs in the L2: A Study with Japanese-English Bilinguals
博士学位論文の要旨及び審査結果の要旨 (Summary of Thesis(DR))othe
Masked Morphological Priming with Past-Tense Verbs in the L2: A Study with Japanese-English Bilinguals
Tohoku University博士(学術)博士学位論文 (Thesis(doctor))thesi
Irregular primes with respect to Genocchi numbers and Artin's primitive root conjecture
We introduce and study a variant of Kummer's notion of (ir)regularity of primes which we call G-irregularity and it is based on Genocchi numbers , rather than Bernoulli number We say that an odd prime is G-irregular if it divides at least one of the integers , and G-regular otherwise. We show that, as in Kummer's case, G-irregularity is related to the divisibility of some class number. Furthermore, we obtain some results on the distribution of G-irregular primes. In particular, we show that each primitive residue class contains infinitely many G-irregular primes and establish non-trivial lower bounds for their number up to a given bound as tends to infinity. As a by-product, we obtain some results on the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions with a prescribed near-primitive root
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