Экспериментальное исследование ряда основных понятий теоретической морфологии (на материале русского языка): регулярность, синкретизм, маркированностьAn experimental study of several core concepts of theoretical morphology (on the material of Russian): regularity, syncretism, markedness

The papers collected in Natalia Slioussar’s dissertation are dedicated to the experimental study of inflectional morphology in Russian. Six papers study the relevance of several core concepts from theoretical morphology for language production and processing. These concepts include morphological regularity, productivity, feature markedness, different types of syncretism. As a result of this enterprise, we also learn something new about these concepts, so the main idea of the dissertation is to show how theory and experiment can interact fruitfully. The seventh paper presents a lexical database that contains more than 50 thousand Russian words with more than 1.7 million word forms characterized for more than 70 different parameters. It can be used to facilitate stimulus selection for experimental research. The papers study production and processing of isolated word forms and word forms in a sentence (primarily on the example of number and gender agreement) and in a wider discourse context, using behavioral and neuroimaging methods.