Linearity and Morphological Structure in Derived Words: Evidence from Category Decision  

Oleh:

Jarvikivi, Juhani ; Niemi, Jussi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 68 no. 1-2 (1999), page 340-346.
Topik: Linearity; derivation; Finnish; visual word recognition
Fulltext: 68_01-02_J-rvikivi.pdf (34.12KB)

Isi artikel

The present article investigates the influences of word-internal category information and linearity on the processing of morphologically complex words. Three sets of Finnish derived nouns consisting of a noun, adjective or verb stem, and a suffix were submitted to two on-line category decision tasks, where the subjects had to decide whether the word was a noun or a verb respectively. Both experiments show a stem–suffix category mismatch effect manifesting itself in prolonged reaction time latencies. Thus, the results indicate that the order of presentation and the wordinternal structural information are intimately tied together also in the visual processing of morphological complex words.

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