Iris Berent

List of John Benjamins publications for which Iris Berent plays a role.

Journal

The Mental Lexicon (ML)

Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli

ISSN 1871-1340 | E-ISSN 1871-1375

Articles

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Berent, Iris and Amanda Dupuis 2017 The unbounded productivity of (sign) language: Evidence from the Stroop task The Mental Lexicon 12:3, pp. 309–341 | Article

Unbounded productivity is a hallmark of linguistic competence. Here, we asked whether this capacity automatically applies to signs. Participants saw video-clips of novel signs in American Sign Language (ASL) produced by a signer whose body appeared in a monochromatic color, and they quickly… read more

Lennertz, Tracy and Iris Berent 2015 On the sonority levels of fricatives and stops The Mental Lexicon 10:1, pp. 88–132 | Article

Across languages, stop-sonorant onsets are preferred to fricative-sonorant ones (e.g., pna ≻ fna), suggesting that stop-initial onsets are better formed. Here, we ask whether this preference is active in the linguistic competence of English speakers. To address this question, we compare stop- and… read more

Berent, Iris, Tracy Lennertz and Monica Rosselli 2012 Universal linguistic pressures and their solutions: Evidence from Spanish The Mental Lexicon 7:3, pp. 275–305 | Article

Do speakers possess universal linguistic restrictions on the sound structure of their language? We examine this question by investigating the restrictions on onset clusters (e.g., bl in block). Cross-linguistic comparisons suggest that certain onset clusters are universally preferred: Onsets like… read more

Berent, Iris and Steven Pinker 2008 Compound formation is constrained by morphology: A reply to Seidenberg, MacDonald & Haskell The Mental Lexicon 3:2, pp. 176–187 | Article

Why do compounds containing regular plurals, such as rats-infested, sound so much worse than corresponding compounds containing irregular plurals, such as mice-infested? Berent and Pinker (2007) reported five experiments showing that this theoretically important effect hinges on the morphological… read more

Berent, Iris and Steven Pinker 2007 The dislike of regular plurals in compounds: Phonological familiarity or morphological constraint? The Mental Lexicon 2:2, pp. 129–181 | Article

English speakers disfavor compounds containing regular plurals compared to irregular ones. Haskell, MacDonald and Seidenberg (2003) attribute this phenomenon to the rarity of compounds containing words with the phonological properties of regular plurals. Five experiments test this proposal.… read more

Berent, Iris, Joseph Tzelgov and Uri Bibi 2006 The autonomous computation of morpho-phonological structure in reading: Evidence from the Stroop task The Mental Lexicon 1:2, pp. 201–230 | Article

Is morphological decomposition automatic? To address this question, we examine whether Hebrew readers decompose morphologically complex words when reading is not required, in the Stroop task. Morphological decomposition is assessed using two markers. One marker examines whether color-naming is… read more

Berent, Iris and Joseph Shimron 2003 11. What is a root? Evidence from the obligatory contour principle Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology, Shimron, Joseph (ed.), pp. 201–222 | Chapter