Linguistic Sophistication of Morphological Decomposition More than Islands of Regularity
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Biografisk notat
Dr Roberto Petrosino obtained his PhD in Linguistics at University of Connecticut, USA. He is now post-doctoral researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. His specific theoretical interests lie within the domains of phonology and morphology, and in particular ask questions (i) about the informational richness of the phonological and morphological representations that are stored in the lexicon, and (ii) about the representational and computational relationships between alternants of morphological, phonological, and morpho-phonological alternations. He has published several peer-reviewed contributions in scientific journals. On the theoretical side, he has worked on several Indo-European languages (primarily, English and Italian, as well as Modern Greek, Classical Greek, and Latin). On the experimental side, he has worked primarily on English, by leveraging evidence from real-time word processing using both behavioral measures (primarily, lexical decision tasks, including both visual and auditory masked priming) and electrophysiological measures (in particular, electroencephalograms, or EEG)."Petrosino's book offers a seminal contribution to the discussion of morphological decomposition and processing. Framed around a coherent set of fundamental questions and around four hypotheses from the literature that generate distinct predictions, the book details a series of (chiefly) priming experiments aimed at addressing how different types of linguistic representations, from the phonological to the morpho-phonological to the syntactic, affect decomposition. The work is careful and thorough in its evaluation of competing hypotheses, transparent about methodological considerations, insightfully nuanced about the interpretation of its experimental results, and considerate of complex and outstanding issues in linguistic theory. Petrosino's book deserves the attention of any researcher engaged with morphological topics, from psycholinguists to generative theorists."Luke AdamsonLeibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany