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Morphological family size in a morphologically rich language: The case of Finnish compared with Dutch and Hebrew
Tekijät: Martin FMD, Bertram R, Haikio T, Schreuder R, Baayen RH
Kustantaja: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
Julkaisuvuosi: 2004
Journal: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Lehden akronyymi: J EXP PSYCHOL LEARN
Vuosikerta: 30
Numero: 6
Aloitussivu: 1271
Lopetussivu: 1278
Sivujen määrä: 8
ISSN: 0278-7393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.30.6.1271
Tiivistelmä
Finnish has a very productive morphology in which a stem can give rise to several thousand words. This study presents a visual lexical decision experiment addressing the processing consequences of the huge productivity of Finnish morphology. The authors observed that in Finnish words with larger morphological families elicited shorter response latencies. However, in contrast to Dutch and Hebrew, it is not the complete morphological family of a complex Finnish word that codetermines response latencies but only the subset of words directly derived from the complex word itself. Comparisons with parallel experiments using translation equivalents in Dutch and Hebrew showed substantial cross-language predictivity of family size between Finnish and Dutch but not between Finnish and Hebrew, reflecting the different ways in which the Hebrew and Finnish morphological systems contribute to the semantic organization of concepts in the mental lexicon.
Finnish has a very productive morphology in which a stem can give rise to several thousand words. This study presents a visual lexical decision experiment addressing the processing consequences of the huge productivity of Finnish morphology. The authors observed that in Finnish words with larger morphological families elicited shorter response latencies. However, in contrast to Dutch and Hebrew, it is not the complete morphological family of a complex Finnish word that codetermines response latencies but only the subset of words directly derived from the complex word itself. Comparisons with parallel experiments using translation equivalents in Dutch and Hebrew showed substantial cross-language predictivity of family size between Finnish and Dutch but not between Finnish and Hebrew, reflecting the different ways in which the Hebrew and Finnish morphological systems contribute to the semantic organization of concepts in the mental lexicon.
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