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

Oleh:

Kehayia, Eva ; Jarema, Gonia ; Tsapkini, Kyrana ; Perlak, Danuta ; Ralli, Angela ; Kadzielawa, Danuta

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 68 no. 1-2 (1999), page 370-377.
Fulltext: 68_01-02_Kehayia.pdf (37.6KB)

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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.

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