The Role of Typological Variation in the Processing of Interfixed Compounds  

Oleh:

Jarema, Gonia ; Libben, Gary ; Dressler, Wolfgang ; Kehayia, Eva

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 81 no. 1-3 (2002), page 736-747.
Topik: lexical processing; morphological priming; compounds; interfixes; crosslanguage investigation; German; Greek; Polish
Fulltext: 81_01-03_Jarema.pdf (61.96KB)

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This study investigates the processing of interfixed compounds within a primed lexical decision paradigm. Results from an experiment on German are compared with those from a previous study on Greek and Polish, demonstrating that patterns of morphological priming in German differ from those obtained in the other two languages. In all experiments compounds were primed by initial morphemes with and without the interfix. In Greek and Polish priming was significantly facilitated in cases where the mophological prime was homophonous with a real word. In German, however, the effect of wordness was found for un-interfixed but not for interfixed primes. Our data suggest that patterns of morphological priming for a given structure may not be generalizable to analogous structures in other languages without a consideration of language-specific morphological properties.

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