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Is there a dual system for regular inflections?

P Gordon1, M Alegre

  • 1University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. peter+@pitt.edu

Brain and Language
|August 6, 1999
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This study investigated whole-word representations for regularly inflected words. Findings suggest these representations only emerge above a specific word frequency threshold, unlike simple words.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Morphological Research

Background:

  • The existence of whole-word representations for regularly inflected word forms remains a key debate in morphological research.
  • Understanding how the brain processes word forms is crucial for cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether regularly inflected word forms have unique whole-word representations.
  • To determine the role of word frequency in the processing of inflected forms.

Main Methods:

  • Four lexical decision experiments were conducted.
  • Whole-word frequency effects were examined across various frequency values.
  • Stem-cluster frequencies were kept constant to isolate whole-word effects.

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Main Results:

  • Frequency effects for inflected forms were observed only above a threshold of approximately 6 per million.
  • Morphologically simple control words exhibited frequency effects across all tested frequency ranges.
  • This suggests a frequency-dependent emergence of whole-word representations for inflected forms.

Conclusions:

  • The data support a frequency-dependent model for the representation of inflected words.
  • Findings are discussed in relation to dual-route and connectionist competition models of word processing.