Alexandre Nikolaev
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexandre Nikolaev is involved.
Articles
2025 Morphological processing in Alzheimer’s disease: A network analysis of word recognition and inflection in Finnish The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigated the degree to which cognitive mechanisms support word recognition and word inflection in aging and how this changes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We tested competing hypotheses regarding the functional organization of language within the broader cognitive system. One set… read more
2022 Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki (eds.), pp. 370–393 | Article
Even though hesitations (e.g., um/uh) were historically perceived as involuntary non-linguistic items (e.g., Maclay & Osgood 1959), more recently, a number of scholars have suggested that hesitations can behave like (a) lexical items (e.g., Clark & Fox Tree 2002), and (b) at least in some… read more
2022 A generating model for Finnish nominal inflection using distributional semantics Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space, Bell, Melanie J., Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli (eds.), pp. 368–394 | Article
Finnish nouns are characterized by rich inflectional variation, with obligatory marking of case and number, with optional possessive suffixes and with the possibility of further cliticization. We present a model for the conceptualization of Finnish inflected nouns, using pre-compiled fasttext… read more