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Inflected words in production: Evidence for a morphologically rich lexicon
Naomi K Caselli1, Michael K Caselli1, Ariel M Cohen-Goldberg1
1a Department of Psychology , Tufts University , Medford , MA , USA.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
|May 29, 2015
Summary
This study reveals that both whole-word and root word frequencies influence the production of English words. These findings suggest that the lexicon stores both root and word representations for inflected words.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Science
- Computational Linguistics
Background:
- Evidence suggests differences in how multimorphemic words are represented during language production versus perception.
- Perception research supports dual representations (whole-word and root), but production research lacks evidence for whole-word representations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the role of whole-word and root representations in the production of inflected English words.
- To determine if whole-word representations exist at the lexical level for monomorphemic words.
Main Methods:
- Analyzed the duration of suffixed words (-ing, -ed, -s) in relation to whole-word and root frequencies.
- Examined the duration of monomorphemic words based on the number of phonological neighbors.
Main Results:
- Both whole-word and root frequencies independently predicted the production duration of suffixed words.
- The number of phonological neighbors independently predicted the duration of monomorphemic words.
Conclusions:
- Both root and whole-word representations are stored in the lexicon and are crucial for producing inflected English words.
- These representations are relevant for both monomorphemic and multimorphemic word production.
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