Alec Marantz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alec Marantz plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1606-822X | E-ISSN 2309-5067
Articles
2017 Revisiting form typicality of nouns and verbs: A usage-based approach The Mental Lexicon 12:2, pp. 159–180 | Article
Research has shown that, in English, the mapping between a word’s form and its syntactic category is not entirely arbitrary. Though formal differences between lexical categories are subtle, adults are sensitive to them and access this knowledge when retrieving or manipulating grammatical category… read more
2013 Syntactic context effects in visual word recognition: An MEG study Neural Correlates of Lexical Processing, pp. 117–139 | Article
Words are typically encountered in the context of a sentence. Recent studies suggest that the contexts in which a word typically appears can affect the way it is recognized in isolation. We distinguish two types of context: collocational, involving specific lexical items, and syntactic, involving… read more
2006 A single route, full decomposition model of morphological complexity: MEG evidence The Mental Lexicon 1:1, pp. 85–123 | Article
Against longstanding assumptions in the psycholinguistics literature, we argue for a model of morphological complexity that has all complex words assembled by the grammar from lexical roots and functional morphemes. This assembly occurs even for irregular forms like gave. Morphological relatedness… read more
2000 Case and Licensing Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio’s Generalization, Reuland, Eric J. (ed.), pp. 11–30 | Article