Ingo Plag

Engemann, U. Marie and Ingo Plag. 2021. Phonetic reduction and paradigm uniformity effects in spontaneous speech. The Mental Lexicon 16:1, pp. 165–198

Recent work on the acoustic properties of complex words has found that morphological information may influence the phonetic properties of words, e.g. acoustic duration. Paradigm uniformity has been proposed as one mechanism that may cause such effects. In a recent experimental study Seyfarth et al.… read more | Article

Gahl, Susanne and Ingo Plag. 2019. Spelling errors in English derivational suffixes reflect morphological boundary strength: A case study. The Mental Lexicon 14:1, pp. 1–36

To what extent do speakers decompose morphologically complex words, such as segmentable, into their morphological constituents? In this article, we argue that spelling errors in English affixes reflect morphological boundary strength and degrees of segmentability. In support of this argument, we… read more | Article

Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag. 2013. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 9–45

In creolist circles, there has been a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties. This debate about the typological status of creole languages has severely suffered from a… read more | Article

Plag, Ingo. 2013. Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition. Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 141–162

Proponents of a ‘feature pool’ approach to creolization (e.g. Mufwene 2001, Aboh & Ansaldo 2006) have claimed that the emergence of the new grammar is driven by the syntax-discourse prominence, markedness, and frequency of available features, with typological similarity or dissimilarity of the… read more | Article

Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag. 2011. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Creoles and Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 5–42

In creolist circles, there has been a a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties. This debate about the typological status of creole languages has severely suffered from a… read more | Article

Plag, Ingo. 2011. Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition. Creoles and Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 89–110

Proponents of a ‘feature pool’ approach to creolization (e.g. Mufwene 2001, Aboh & Ansaldo 2006) have claimed that the emergence of the new grammar is driven by the syntax-discourse prominence, markedness, and frequency of available features, with typological similarity or dissimilarity of the… read more | Article

Plag, Ingo. 2011. Pidgins and creoles. Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook, Pienemann, Manfred and Jörg-U. Keßler (eds.), pp. 106–120

This chapter discusses pidgin and creole languages, that is languages that have emerged in contact situations in which second language acquisition has played a prominent role. It is shown that the creation of many of the morphosyntactic structures we find in these contact languages can be… read more | Article