Publications

Bilingual and multilingual mental lexicon: a modeling study with Linear Discriminative Learning

Language Learning

Chuang, Yu-Ying, Melanie J. Bell, Isabelle Banke and R. Harald Baayen. 2021.


Constituent polysemy and interpretational diversity in attested English novel compounds

The Mental Lexicon 15.1: 42-61

Schäfer, Martin, and Melanie J. Bell. 2020


How morphological structure affects phonetic realisation in English compound nouns

Morphology 1-34

Bell, Melanie J., Sonia Ben Hedia and Ingo Plag. 2020


Lexical deconstruction - review of Giegerich, H., Lexical structures: Compounding and the modules of grammar

Edinburgh studies in theoretical linguistics, vol. 1. Morphology 28(1)

Bell, Melanie J. 2018

Modelling semantic transparency

Morphology 26(2)

Bell, Melanie J. & Martin Schäfer. 2016

Introduction: Modelling compound properties

Morphology 26(2)

Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Melanie J. Bell, Martin Schäfer & Barbara Schlücker. 2016

Inter-speaker variation in English compound prominence

Lingue e Linguaggio 14(1)

Bell, Melanie J. 2015a

Basic relations and stereotype relations in the semantics of compound nouns

Journal of Cognitive Science 16(3)

Bell, Melanie J. 2015b

Informativity and analogy in English compound stress

Word Structure 6(2)

Bell, Melanie J. & Ingo Plag. 2012

Semantic transparency: challenges for distributional semantics

Proceedings of the IWCS 2013 workshop: Towards a formal distributional semantics

Bell, Melanie J. & Martin Schäfer. 2013

Informativeness is a determinant of compound stress in English

Journal of Linguistics 48(3)

Bell, Melanie J. & Ingo Plag. 2012

The English noun-noun construct: a morphological and syntactic object

Angela Ralli, Geert Booij, Sergio Scalise & Athanasios Karasimos (eds.), On-line Proceedings of the Eighth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM8) Cagliari, 14-17 September 2011, 59-91

Bell, Melanie J. 2012

At the boundary of morphology and syntax: Noun noun constructions in English

Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks & George Tsoulas (eds.), Morphology and its interfaces (Linguistics Today 178), 137-167. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Bell, Melanie J. 2011

Review of Réka Benczes, Creative compounding in English: The semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun-noun combinations

English Language and Linguistics 12(3). 549-552.

Bell, Melanie J. 2008

Against nouns as syntactic premodifiers in English noun phrases

Working Papers in English and Applied Linguistics 11. 1-48.

Bell, Melanie J. 2005

Equipping learners to work on their pronunciation

Working Papers in EnSpeak Out! Newsletter of IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group 32. 24-27.

Bell, Melanie J. 2004