slioussar resume EN (Experimental study of several core concepts of theoretical morphology (on the material of russian) - regularity, syncretism, markedness)

NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITYHIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICSas a manuscriptNatalia SlioussarEXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SEVERAL CORE CONCEPTSOF THEORETICAL MORPHOLOGY(ON THE MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN):REGULARITY, SYNCRETISM, MARKEDNESSSummaryof the dissertation for the degree ofDoctor of Science in Philology and Linguistics HSEMoscow 2018The dissertation was prepared at the National Research University “Higher School ofEconomics.”PublicationsSeven publications were selected for the defense:1.

Alexeeva, S., Slioussar, N., Chernova, D. StimulStat: a lexical database for Russian //Behavior Research Methods, online first. DOI 10.3758/s13428-017-0994-3.2. Kireev, M.V., Slioussar, N., Korotkov, A.D., Chernigovskaya, T.V., Medvedev, S.V.Changes in functional connectivity within the fronto-temporal brain network induced byregular and irregular Russian verb production // Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Vol. 9.Art. 36. 2015. P. 120–129.

DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00036.3. Slioussar, N. Forms and features: the role of syncretism in number agreement attraction //JournalofMemoryandLanguage.Vol. 101.2018.P. 51–63.DOI10.1016/j.jml.2018.03.006.4. Slioussar, N. Gender, declension and stem-final consonants: an experimental study ofgender agreement in Russian // Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies.Vol.

17. 2018. P. 688-700.5. Slioussar, N. Processing of a free word order language: The role of syntax and discoursecontext // Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Vol. 40. 2011. P. 291–306. DOI10.1007/s10936-011-9171-5.6. Slioussar, N., Kireev, M.V., Chernigovskaya, T.V., Kataeva, G.V., Korotkov, A.D.,Medvedev, S.V. An ER-fMRI study of Russian inflectional morphology // Brain andLanguage. Vol. 130. 2014.

P. 33–41. DOI 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.01.006.7. Slioussar, N., Malko, A. Gender agreement attraction in Russian: production andcomprehension evidence // Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 7. Art. 1651. 2016. P. 1–20. DOI10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01651.The results of the present study have also been presented in the following papers:8. Alexeeva, S., Frolova, A., Slioussar, N. Data from Russian help to determine in whichlanguages the Possible Word Constraint applies. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.Vol. 46. 2017. P. 629–640.9.

Alexeeva, S., Slioussar, N. Orfografičeskie sosedi v russkom jazyke: baza dannyx ieksperiment, napravlennyj na izučenie morfologičeskoj dekompozicii (in Russian,2‘Orthographical neighbors in Russian: a database and an experiment addressing the problemof morphological decomposition’) // Voprosy Psikholingvistiki. Vol. 32. 2017. P. 12–27.10.

Magomedova, V., Slioussar, N. Dannye interneta v issledovanii jazykovyx izmenenij:analiz čeredovanij v russkix komparativax i programma dlja raboty s takimi dannymi (inRussian, ‘Internet data in the study of language change: A case study of alternations inRussian comparatives and a program to work with such data’) // Computational Linguisticsand Intellectual Technologies. Vol. 13. 2014. P. 379–390.11. Magomedova, V., Slioussar, N. Paradigm leveling: The decay of consonant alternations inRussian // Perspectives on Morphological Organization: Data and Analyses / ed. by F.Kiefer et al.

Leiden: Brill, 2017. P. 123–137.12. Malko, A., Slioussar, N. Ošibki pri soglasovanii po rodu: eksperimental’noe issledovaniena materiale russkogo jazyka (in Russian, ‘Attraction errors in gender agreement: Anexperimental study on Russian’). St. Petersburg State University Bulletin (Series 9).

Vol. 1.2013. P. 146–154.13. Slioussar, N. (2008). Russkij porjadok slov v tipologičeskoj perspective: poziciipodležaščego v imenitel’nom padeže i nekotoryx glagol’nyx form (in Russian, ‘Russianword order in the typological perspective: Positions of Nominative subjects and certain verbforms’). St. Petersburg State University Bulletin (Series 9). Vol. 1.

2008. P. 217–225.14. Slioussar, N. Russian and the EPP requirement in the Tense domain // Lingua. 2011.Vol. 121. P. 2048–2068.15. Slioussar, N., Alexeeva, S. Orfograficheskie sosedi s zamenoj bukvy pri izucheniimexanizmov leksicheskogo dostupa (in Russian: “Substitution orthographic neighbors inthe study of lexical access”) // Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies.Vol.

16. 2017. P. 407–418.16. Valova, E., Slioussar, N. Sravnenie korpusnogo i eksperimental'nogo metoda na primereissledovanija sintaksičeskix svojstv enklitiki ‘že’ (in Russian, ‘Comparing corpus-basedand experimental research methods: a study of the syntactic properties of the Russianenclitic ‘zhe’’) // Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. Vol. 15.

2016.P. 792–802.3Conference presentations and grantsThe main results and conclusions of the present study have been presented in 2011–2018 in 65oral and poster presentations at 46 international conferences, including:•Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference (2013,2015, 2016, 2017, 2018);•Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017);•International Morphological Processing Conference (2013, 2015, 2017);•International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (2014, 2016);•Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) Conference (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016,2017);•Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS) (2016);•International Morphology Meeting (IMM) (2014, 2016, 2018);•American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM) (2012);•“Night Whites” Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (2011,2014, 2018);•International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) World Congress (2016, 2018);•International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue” (2013, 2015, 2018);•International Conference on Cognitive Science (2014, 2016).The studies presented in section 2 were partially supported by the grant 16-18-00041 from theRussian Science Foundation.

Section 3 includes studies partially supported by the grant 16-1802071 from the Russian Science Foundation. The project discussed in section 4 was funded bythe grant 14-04-12034 from the Russian Foundation for Humanities.41. IntroductionThe papers collected in this dissertation study are dedicated to the experimental study ofinflectional morphology in Russian. In six papers, we study the relevance of several coremorphological concepts for production and processing, including morphological regularity,productivity, feature markedness, different types of syncretism.

As a result, we also learnsomething new about these concepts, so the main idea of the dissertation is to show how theoryand experiment can interact fruitfully. The seventh paper presents a lexical database thatcontains more than 50 thousand Russian words with more than 1.7 million word formscharacterized for more than 70 different parameters. It can be used to facilitate stimulusselection for experimental research. The papers study production and processing of isolatedword forms and word forms in a sentence (primarily on the example of number and genderagreement) and in a wider discourse context, using behavioral and neuroimaging methods.2.

Production and processing of isolated word formsPapers selected for the defense: (Slioussar et al. 2014; Kireev et al. 2015).Inflectional morphology is at the center of an important debate in cognitive science, concerningthe general principles according to which the mental lexicon is organized and the foundationalproperties of our cognitive architecture. This debate focuses on the distinction betweenmorphologically regular and irregular word forms. The so-called “dual route” approachassumes that the former are generated and processed by symbolic rules, while the latter storedin the lexicon, from where they can be retrieved through associative memory mechanisms (e.g.Clahsen 1999; Marslen-Wilson and Tyler 1997; Orsolini and Marslen-Wilson 1997; Pinker1991, 1999; Pinker and Prince 1988; Ullman 2004). According to the “single route” approach,our cognitive architecture does not rely on symbolic rules and all word forms are computed bya single integrated system (e.g.

MacWhinney and Leinbach 1991; McClelland and Patterson2002; Plunkett and Marchman 1993; Ragnasdóttir et al. 1999; Rumelhart and McClelland1986).Behavioral studies testing DR and SR approaches analyze a variety of languages, butneuroimaging studies rely primarily on English and German data (e.g. Beretta et al. 2003; deDiego-Balaguer et al.