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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ingo Plag is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their scholarly output covers several main topics, notably:

  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
  • Reading and Literacy Development

Plag has contributed to various research venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Mental Lexicon
  • Morphology
  • Language Learning

Several recent publications authored or co-authored by Plag include:

  • How morphological structure affects phonetic realisation in English compound nouns, 2020, Morphology
  • Durational Differences of Word-Final /s/ Emerge From the Lexicon: Modelling Morpho-Phonetic Effects in Pseudowords With Linear Discriminative Learning, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Rethinking First Language-Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project, 2023, Language Learning
  • Morpho-Phonetic Effects in Speech Production: Modeling the Acoustic Duration of English Derived Words With Linear Discriminative Learning, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Relationship of Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria: Evidence from Copula Constructions in Ice-Nigeria, 2020, La Strada magazine

Plag has also published books, including Complex Words released by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Plag include:

  • Ghattas Eid
  • Simon David Stein
  • Lívia Kőrtvélyessy
  • Esther Seyffarth
  • Emad Rihan

In recognition of academic contributions, Plag was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Word-formation in English

    Ingo Plag

  • Morphological Productivity: Structural Constraints in English Derivation

    Ingo Plag

  • The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

    Laurie Bauer;Rochelle Lieber;Ingo Plag

  • Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles

    Peter Bakker;Aymeric Daval-Markussen;Mikael Parkvall;Ingo Plag

  • Morphological productivity across speech and writing

    Ingo Plag;Christiane Dalton-Puffer;Harald Baayen

  • What Constrains Possible Suffix Combinations? On the Interaction of Grammatical and Processing Restrictions in Derivational Morphology

    Jennifer Hay;Ingo Plag

  • Homophony and morphology: The acoustics of word-final S in English

    Ingo Plag;Julia Homann;Gero Kunter

  • Suffix Ordering and Morphological Processing

    Ingo Plag;Harald Baayen

  • The variability of compound stress in English: structural, semantic, and analogical factors

    Ingo Plag

  • Creoles as interlanguages : Inflectional morphology

    Ingo Plag

  • The role of semantics, argument structure, and lexicalization in compound stress assignment in English

    Ingo Plag;Gero Kunter;Sabine Lappe;Maria Braun

  • Acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in North American English

    Ingo Plag;Gero Kunter;Mareile Schramm

  • Categorywise, some Compound-Type Morphemes Seem to Be Rather Suffix-Like: On the Status of -ful, -type, and -wise in Present Day English

    Christiane Dalton-Puffer;Ingo Plag

  • Syntactic category Information and the semantics of derivational morphological rules

    Ingo Plag

  • Selectional restrictions in English suffixation revisited: a reply to Fabb (1988)

    Ingo Plag

  • Introduction to English Linguistics

    Ingo Plag;Sabine Arndt-Lappe;Maria Braun;Mareile Schramm

  • Creoles as interlanguages : Syntactic structures

    Ingo Plag

  • Word stress assignment in German, English and Dutch: Quantity-sensitivity and extrametricality revisited

    Ulrike Domahs;Ingo Plag;Rebecca Carroll

  • Epenthesis, deletion and the emergence of the optimal syllable in creole : the case of Sranan

    Birgit Alber;Ingo Plag

  • Morphological haplology in a constraint-based morpho-phonology

    Ingo Plag

  • Testing hypotheses about compound stress assignment in English: a corpus-based investigation

    Ingo Plag;Gero Kunter;Sabine Lappe

  • The role of selectional restrictions, phonotactics and parsing in constraining suffix ordering in English

    Ingo Plag

  • Informativeness is a determinant of compound stress in English

    Melanie J. Bell;Ingo Plag

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Harald Baayen
R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen
Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay University of Canterbury
Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara

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