Putting the bits together: An information theoretical perspective on 
morphological processing

Moscoso del Prado Martín, Fermín; Kostic, Aleksandar; Baayen, R. Harald

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.015

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Putting the bits together: An information theoretical perspective on morphological processing

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Moscoso del Prado Martín, Fermín
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Other Research, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

Baayen, R. Harald
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Other Research, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Moscoso del Prado Martín, F., Kostic, A., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Putting the bits together: An information theoretical perspective on morphological processing. Cognition, 94(1), 1-18. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.015.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1A63-2

Abstract

In this study we introduce an information-theoretical formulation of the emergence of type- and token-based effects in morphological processing. We describe a probabilistic measure of the informational complexity of a word, its information residual, which encompasses the combined influences of the amount of information contained by the target word and the amount of information carried by its nested morphological paradigms. By means of re-analyses of previously published data on Dutch words we show that the information residual outperforms the combination of traditional token- and type-based counts in predicting response latencies in visual lexical decision, and at the same time provides a parsimonious account of inflectional, derivational, and compounding processes.