Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this volume explores the relationship between factors influencing how language is processed in the mind and the range of different types of word structures found across languages of the world. It is aimed at linguists, particularly morphologists and typologists, and cognitive scientists.

1. At the intersection of cognitive processes and linguistic diversity Andrea D. Sims, Adam Ussishkin, Jeff Parker and Samantha Wray; Part I. In What Ways Is Language Processing Tuned to the Morphological Structure of a Language?: 2. Tuning language processing mechanisms to a language's morphology without decomposition: The case of semantic transparency Laurie Beth Feldman and Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín; 3. Productivity effects on morphological processing in Maltese auditory word recognition Samantha Wray and Adam Ussishkin; 4. Phonotactic and morphological effects in the acceptability of pseudowords Jeremy M. Needle, Janet B. Pierrehumbert and Jennifer B. Hay; Part II. What ROLE DOES CUE INFORMATIVITY PLAY IN LEARNING AND HOW THE LEXICON EVOLVES OVER TIME?: 5. How agglutinative? Searching for cues to meaning in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) using discriminative learning Gabriela Caballero and Vsevolod Kapatsinski; 6. Words, probability, and segmental information: Less probable words have more informative segments Adam King and Andrew Wedel; 7. Learning complex morphological patterns: The role of syncretism and markedness Sara Finley; Part III. How Do System-Level Principles of Morphological Organization Emerge?: 8. Morphology gets more and more complex, unless it doesn't Eric Meinhardt, Robert Malouf and Farrell Ackerman; 9. Network structure and inflection class predictability: Modeling the emergence of marginal detraction Jeff Parker, Robert Reynolds and Andrea D. Sims; 10. Rule combination, potentiation, affix telescoping Gregory Stump.