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The processing of inflected words.

L Katz1, K Rexer, G Lukatela

  • 1Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT 06511.

Psychological Research
|January 1, 1991
PubMed
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Word recognition primarily involves processing the whole word form, not initial decomposition into stem and suffix. This finding holds true across languages with varying inflectional complexity.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • The process of recognizing inflected words is debated: whole-word recognition versus decomposition into morphemes (stem + suffix).
  • Understanding this process is crucial for models of language acquisition and processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether inflected word recognition relies on initial decomposition or whole-word processing.
  • To compare word recognition mechanisms in English (low inflection) and Serbo-Croatian (high inflection).

Main Methods:

  • Lexical decision experiments were conducted.
  • Participants were exposed to stems briefly before whole inflected words.
  • Reaction times and accuracy were measured.

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Main Results:

  • Brief stem priming did not facilitate the recognition of inflected words.
  • Inflected word recognition speed correlated more strongly with whole-word frequency than stem frequency.
  • These effects were observed in both English and Serbo-Croatian.

Conclusions:

  • Lexical access for inflected words appears to involve initial recognition of the whole word form.
  • Morphological decomposition may occur in later stages of word processing.
  • Findings suggest a universal mechanism for inflected word recognition, regardless of language morphology.