Versatility?

[Lise Menn]

Aya, there are too many good articles in The Mental Lexicon to list  
here - which ones to look at depend on the reader's specific  
interests.  Here's the publisher's link so people can check out the  
contents:

http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=ml

NB: Issue 3:2 is currently available online as a free sample.

Lise



On Mar 20, 2011, at 5:49 PM, A. Katz wrote:

> Lise,
>
> Could you share some references to specific article that are point?
>
> Best,
>
>   --Aya
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Lise Menn wrote:
>
>> Gary Libben and his group have done a great deal of  
>> psycholinguistic work on what people consciously and unconsciously  
>> know about compounds; it's not necessary to rely on anecdote and  
>> introspection.  Check out the journal The Mental Lexicon. Obviously  
>> no one has all the answers, but linguists shouldn't ignore the very  
>> good science that has been done in this area.
>> Lise
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Tom Givon wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe it would be useful to add that among all the pieces of  
>>> quaint exemplars lie some general principles that have to do with  
>>> both the semantic & phonological changes that affect compound  
>>> expressions. Once the two parts co-vary in all (or most) contexts,  
>>> and once the meaning of the compound drifts away from the original  
>>> composite meaning of the two parts, there is a growing semantic  
>>> incentive to cease interpreting it as a composite, given that the  
>>> predictability of the compound meaning from its parts gets lower &  
>>> lower over time. In parallel, once two phonological sequences  
>>> becomes fused as a single word, assimilation & reduction make the  
>>> similarity to the two original parts less & less obvious. This is  
>>> a typical "iconic conspiracy" in compounding & co-lexicalization.  
>>> Ther rest is, as usual, history.  TG
>>> ====================
>>> On 3/20/2011 4:53 PM, dharv at mail.optusnet.com.au wrote:
>>>> I can attest that even in the aircraft industry plenty of people  
>>>> don't realize that helicopter means helical or twisting wing.
>>>> At 3:45 PM -0600 20/3/11, Sherman Wilcox wrote:
>>>>> On 20 Mar 2011, at 15:26, Pamela Munro wrote:
>>>>>> The first time the observation about the analyzability of / 
>>>>>> rooster/ was made here, I thought, sure, I know the ending -/ 
>>>>>> ster/, but what is /roo/?
>>>>> I routinely ask my students to analyze helicopter. No one can.  
>>>>> Everyone thinks the word has an -/er/ suffix. Some of them come  
>>>>> up with /heli-/ having to do with the sun, but then they can't  
>>>>> figure out what the sun has to do with helicopters, or what -/ 
>>>>> copt/- might mean. Something that chops the sun's rays?
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Sherman Wilcox, Professor
>>>>> Department of Linguistics
>>>>> University of New Mexico
>>>>> Albuquerque, NM 871131
>>
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Lise Menn                      Home Office: 303-444-4274
1625 Mariposa Ave	Fax: 303-413-0017
Boulder CO 80302
http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/index.html	

Professor Emerita of Linguistics
Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science
University of  Colorado

Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics]
Fellow, Linguistic Society of America

Campus Mail Address:
UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science

Campus Physical Address:
CINC 234
1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder