Word frequency and morphological processing in Finnish revisited



: Soveri A, Lehtonen M, Laine M

Publisher: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO

: 2007

: Mental Lexicon

: MENTAL LEXICON

: MENT LEX

: 2

: 359

: 385

: 27

: 1871-1340


The aims of the present study were to investigate the effects of word frequency on morphological processing of inflected words in Finnish, and to re-test previous results obtained for high frequency inflected words in Finnish which suggest that inflected words of high frequency might have full-form representations in the mental lexicon. Our results from three visual lexical decision experiments with monolingual Finnish speakers suggest that only very high frequency inflected Finnish words have full-form representations. This finding differs from results obtained from related studies in morphologically more limited Indo-European languages, in which full-form representations for inflected words seem to exist at a much lower level of frequency than in the morphologically rich Finnish language.



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