Workshop: Morphological Complexity and Psycholinguistics

Workshop description

The workshop 'Morphological Complexity: Implications for Psycholinguistics' was held on January 28th 2011, at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, and was co-hosted by the Institute. Guest speakers were Mirjam Ernestus (MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University) and Alice Harris (University of Massachussetts, Amherst). Organizers were Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett and Dunstan Brown (Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey). 

Programme

Introduction
Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen) and the Surrey Morphology Group

How morphological complexity resulting from phonology affects speech processing
Mirjam Ernestus (MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University)

The processing of morphological features. ERP Evidence for underspecification
Andreas Opitz (University of Leipzig), Stefanie Regel (MPI Leipzig), Gereon Müller (University of Leipzig), Angela Friederici (MPI Leipzig)

Modelling paradigm spaces
Basilio Calderone (Modyco, CNRS & Université de Paris Ouest la Défense), Fabio Montermini (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS & Université de Toulouse) [cancelled]

Multiple exponence in Batsbi: psycholinguistic fieldwork on an endangered language
Alice Harris (University of Massachussetts, Amherst)

Generalisation of inflectional classes in Portuguese
João Veríssimo (University of Lisbon), Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)

Children's early knowledge of Polish noun inflections
Grzegorz Krajewski (University of Manchester)

Acquiring the complexity of German Noun Plural Formation
Sabine Laaha, Wolfgang Dressler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)