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Affixal Homonymy triggers full-form storage, even with inflected words, even in a morphologically rich language
List of Authors: Bertram R, Laine M, Baayen RH, Schreuder R, Hyona J
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Publication year: 2000
Journal: Cognition
Journal name in source: COGNITION
Journal acronym: COGNITION
Volume number: 74
Issue number: 2
Start page: B13
End page: B25
Number of pages: 13
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00068-2
Abstract
This paper investigates whether affixal homonymy, the phenomenon that one affix form serves two or more semantic/syntactic functions, affects lexical processing of inflected words in a similar way for a morphologically rich language such as Finnish as for morphologically restricted languages such as Dutch and English. For the latter two languages, there is evidence that affixal homonymy triggers full-form storage for inflected words (Bertram, R., Schreuder, R., and Baayen, R. H. (in press). The balance of storage and computation in morphological processing: the role of word formation type, affixal homonymy, and productivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Serene and Jongman (1997). Processing of English inflectional morphology. Memory and Cognition, 25, 425-437). Two visual lexical decision experiments show the same pattern for Finnish. Apparently, the substantially richer morphology in Finnish does not prevent full-form storage for inflected words when the affix is homonymic. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper investigates whether affixal homonymy, the phenomenon that one affix form serves two or more semantic/syntactic functions, affects lexical processing of inflected words in a similar way for a morphologically rich language such as Finnish as for morphologically restricted languages such as Dutch and English. For the latter two languages, there is evidence that affixal homonymy triggers full-form storage for inflected words (Bertram, R., Schreuder, R., and Baayen, R. H. (in press). The balance of storage and computation in morphological processing: the role of word formation type, affixal homonymy, and productivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Serene and Jongman (1997). Processing of English inflectional morphology. Memory and Cognition, 25, 425-437). Two visual lexical decision experiments show the same pattern for Finnish. Apparently, the substantially richer morphology in Finnish does not prevent full-form storage for inflected words when the affix is homonymic. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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