Maria Heitmeier
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Heitmeier is involved.
2025 Morpho-phonology is not independent of semantics: The case of German nominal number marking The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
Morpho-phonological alternations in inflectional paradigms are commonly analyzed as purely formal phenomena, in which the mapping of phonological structure and morpho-syntactic categories is organized without recourse to semantic properties of the words involved. The present paper explores the… read more
2023 How direct is the link between words and images? The Mental Lexicon 18:3, pp. 472–511 | Article
Günther et al. (2022) investigated the relationship between words and images in which they concluded the possibility of a direct link between words and embodied experience. In their study, participants were presented with a target noun and a pair of images, one chosen by their model and another… read more
2023 German nominal number interpretation in an impaired mental lexicon: A naive discriminative learning perspective The Mental Lexicon 18:3, pp. 417–445 | Article
There is an ongoing debate on how speakers and listeners process and interpret information in a morphological system that is very complex and not very transparent. A well-known test case is the German nominal number system. In this paper we employ discriminative learning (e.g., Ramscar &… read more
2020 Simulating phonological and semantic impairment of English tense inflection with linear discriminative learning The Mental Lexicon 15:3, pp. 385–421 | Article
This study applies the computational theory of the ‘discriminative lexicon’ (Baayen, Chuang, and Blevins, 2019) to the modeling of the production of English verbs in aphasic speech. Under semantic impairment, speakers have been reported to have greater difficulties with irregular verbs, whereas… read more