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  • Linguistic Typology
  • Cognitive Science

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  • The suffixing bias, a linguistic phenomenon where suffixes are preferred over prefixes for grammatical meaning, has been recognized for a century.
  • The origin of this bias remains debated: is it driven by general cognitive processing or domain-specific language mechanisms?

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the suffixing bias arises from general cognitive mechanisms or language-specific processes.
  • To determine if statistical learning (SL), a domain-general learning mechanism, can explain the suffixing preference.

Main Methods:

  • Statistical learning (SL) experiments were conducted to compare the processing of suffixed and prefixed sequences.
  • Both linguistic and non-linguistic materials were used to test the domain-specificity of the suffixing preference.
  • The influence of native language morphology on suffixing preferences was examined.

Main Results:

  • A suffixing preference was observed exclusively with linguistic material, not non-linguistic material, in statistical learning experiments.
  • This indicates that the suffixing preference is likely rooted in language-specific mechanisms.
  • Native language morphology, specifically the presence of grammatical prefixes, modulated suffixing preferences only in the linguistic domain, suggesting limited cross-domain influence.

Conclusions:

  • The suffixing bias appears to originate from language-specific mechanisms rather than general cognitive processing.
  • The findings suggest that the way languages are structured, particularly their morphology, plays a crucial role in shaping cognitive preferences for processing linguistic information.