The processing of inflected words
| Autor: | Karl Rexer, Georgije Lukatela, Leonard Katz |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Psycholinguistics
Information processing Experimental and Cognitive Psychology General Medicine Linguistics Lexical item Semantics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Phonetics Inflection Word recognition Reaction Time Speech Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology Lexical decision task Humans Attention Suffix Psychology Word (computer architecture) Language |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Research. 53:25-32 |
| ISSN: | 1430-2772 0340-0727 |
| Popis: | Is an inflected word identified by first decomposing it into stem plus suffix or, instead, is it recognized as a whole? Several lexical decision experiments studied the recognition of inflected words in English (a language with few inflections) and Serbo-Croatian (a heavily inflected language). If recognition depended on decomposition, preceding the inflection with a brief exposure of the stem (less than 100 ms) should have primed the lexical entry for the stem and, therefore, facilitated recognition of the whole inflected word that followed. It did not. It was also found that the speed of recognizing an inflected word was more strongly associated with the frequency of the whole inflected form than with the frequency of its stem. The results suggested that in word recognition, lexical contact is first made with the whole word form. Nevertheless, morphological decomposition may still occur in subsequent processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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