Lexical Representations of Written Nouns and Verbs in Italian  

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Laudanna, Alessandro ; Voghera, Miriam ; Gazzellini, Simone

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 81 no. 1-3 (2002), page 250-263.
Topik: nouns; verbs; morphology; stem homographs; lexical processing; orthographic lexicon; inflection; Italian; priming; lexical decision
Fulltext: 81_01-03_Laudanna.pdf (64.11KB)

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This study investigates the differences in the input representations of verbs and nouns in the Italian mental lexicon. One visual lexical decision experiment in which the stem homograph effect (Laudanna, Badecker, & Caramazza, 1989) was evaluated on noun and verb targets is reported. Strong inhibitory effects on verb targets preceded by stem homographs relative to nonhomographic word pairs were found. The effects on verb targets were also much more reliable than the effects on noun targets. The pattern of results provides support for the hypothesis that noun and verbs are differently represented in the orthographic input lexicon.

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