The Role of Morphological Structure in the Processing of Compounds: The Interface between Linguistics and Psycholinguistics

This study presents a cross-linguistic investigation of lexical access and subjects' sensitivity to the internal morphological structure of compounds in two highly inflected languages, Greek and Polish. The following questions were addressed: Are individual constituents activated during on-line...

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Published in:Brain and language 1999-06, Vol.68 (1-2), p.370-377
Main Authors: Kehayia, Eva, Jarema, Gonia, Tsapkini, Kyrana, Perlak, Danuta, Ralli, Angela, Kadzielawa, Danuta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Cognition - physiology
Greece
Humans
Poland
Psycholinguistics
Reaction Time
Vocabulary
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Summary:This study presents a cross-linguistic investigation of lexical access and subjects' sensitivity to the internal morphological structure of compounds in two highly inflected languages, Greek and Polish. The following questions were addressed: Are individual constituents activated during on-line word recognition? To what extent does internal morphological structure play a role during lexical access? Is there an interaction between headedness and constituent-priming given that the inflection that the second constituent carries determines the gender, number, and case of the compound? Our results show activation of individual constituents of compounds during priming, a strong word effect, and a positional advantage for first constituents in spite of the presence of second constituent heads.
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1006/brln.1999.2090