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Pause acceptability indicates word-internal structure in Wubuy.

Rikke L Bundgaard-Nielsen¹, Brett J Baker²

¹MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Bankstown Campus, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia; School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, New South Wales, Australia.

|February 3, 2020

Summary

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Wubuy speakers treat complex words like phrases when pauses are inserted at transparent morphological junctures. This suggests complex words share characteristics of both words and phrases.

Keywords:

Morphology Pause Polysynthesis Psycholinguistics Speech processing

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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Morphology

Background:

Polysynthetic languages, like Wubuy, feature semantically complex words.
These words can translate to entire phrases in analytic languages (e.g., English).
This complexity raises questions about their linguistic classification—words or phrases?

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate Wubuy speakers' understanding of word-internal morphological complexity.
To determine if complex Wubuy words are processed more like words or phrases.

Main Methods:

A word-preference task was employed.
Participants evaluated the acceptability of complex Wubuy words with artificial pauses.
Pauses were inserted at various morphological junctures within words.

Main Results:

Speakers preferred unmodified words and words with pauses at semantically transparent junctures.
No preference was observed between unmodified words and those with pauses at transparent junctures.
This indicates speakers access word-internal morphological information.

Conclusions:

Complex Wubuy words exhibit characteristics of both words and phrases.
Speakers' processing of complex words reflects their morphological structure.
Findings contribute to understanding cross-linguistic variation in word structure and processing.