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Niels O Schiller1, Albert Costa
1Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. n.schiller@psychology.unimaas.nl
Abstract:
Freestanding and bound morphemes differ in many (psycho)linguistic aspects. Some theorists have claimed that the representation and retrieval of freestanding and bound morphemes in the course of language production are governed by similar processing mechanisms. Alternatively, it has been proposed that both types of morphemes may be selected for production in different ways. In this article, the authors first review the available experimental evidence related to this topic and then present new experimental data pointing to the notion that freestanding and bound morphemes are retrieved following distinct processing principles: freestanding morphemes are subject to competition, bound morphemes not.
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