Mark Aronoff

Aronoff, Mark, Kristian Berg and Vera Heyer 2016 Some implications of English spelling for morphological processing Linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing, Clahsen, Harald, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste (eds.), pp. 164–185 | Article

In alphabetic writing systems, the most consistent correspondences hold between written and spoken segments. Although English spelling uses the Roman alphabet and is thus largely phonographic, it also encodes non-phonological distinctions such as those among homophonic words (e.g., pair, pare,… read more

Meir, Irit, Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler, Carol A. Padden and Mark Aronoff 2012 The influence of community on language structure: Evidence from two young sign languages Linguistic Variation 12:2, pp. 247–291 | Article

By comparing two sign languages of approximately the same age but which arose and developed under different social circumstances, we are able to identify possible relationships between social factors and language structure. We argue that two structural properties of these languages are related to… read more

Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden and Wendy Sandler 2010 The roots of linguistic organization in a new language The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 133–152 | Article

It is possible for a language to emerge with no direct linguistic history or outside linguistic influence. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) arose about 70 years ago in a small, insular community with a high incidence of profound prelingual neurosensory deafness. In ABSL, we have been able to… read more

Meir, Irit, Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler and Carol A. Padden 2010 Sign languages and compounding Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 301–322 | Article

Compounding is one of the few sequential word formation processes found across sign languages. We explore familiar properties of compounds in established sign languages like American Sign Language, as well as a modality-specific type of simultaneous compounding, in which each hand contributes a… read more

Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden and Wendy Sandler 2008 The roots of linguistic organization in a new language Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 133–153 | Article

It is possible for a language to emerge with no direct linguistic history or outside linguistic influence. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) arose about 70 years ago in a small, insular community with a high incidence of profound prelingual neurosensory deafness. In ABSL, we have been able to… read more

Hoberman, Robert D. and Mark Aronoff 2003 3. The verbal morphology of Maltese Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology, Shimron, Joseph (ed.), pp. 61–78 | Chapter

Aronoff, Mark 1992 Segmentalism in linguisitics: The alphabetic basis of phonological theory The Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 71–82 | Article

Aronoff, Mark 1990 Review of Szpyra (1989): The Phonology-Morphology Interface: Cycles, levels and words Studies in Language 14:2, pp. 503–510 | Review

Anshen, F. and Mark Aronoff 1989 Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English Dictionary Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 197–202 | Article

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The Mental Lexicon (ML)

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