Affixal homonymy triggers full-form storage, even with inflected words, even in a morphologically rich language



: Bertram R, Laine M, Baayen RH, Schreuder R, Hyona J

: 1999

: Studies in languages

: LANGUAGE, MINDS, AND BRAINS

: STUD LANG-FINLAND

: 34

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: 951-708-833-7

: 1456-5528


This paper investigates whether Affixal Homonymy, the phenomenon that one affix form serves two or more semantic and/or 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 and processing strategies for inflected words (Bertram, Schreuder & Baayen, in press; Sereno and Jongman, 1997). Two experiments employing both a visual lexical decision task and subjective frequency rating task show the same pattern for Finnish. Apparently, the overall much more productive inflectional morphology in Finnish does not prevent full-form storage for inflected words when the affix is homonymic.



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