Logical Complexity in Morphological Learning: effects of structure and null/overt affixation on learning paradigms

Abstract

This paper considers a morphological analogue of a psychological experiment on learning categories with the structure of Boolean connectives AND, OR, and XOR (exclusive OR). This experiment will test the effects of logical structure and the presence of null/overt affixes on paradigm complexity. The results are partially consistent with the previous psychological studies, however, they also differ in several ways from analogous non-linguistic experiments. At this point, it is unclear exactly what factors are responsible for these differences.