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The role of typological variation in the processing of interfixed compounds.
Full Abstract
This study investigates the processing of interfixed compounds within a primed lexical decision paradigm. Results from an experiment on German are compared with those from a previous study on Greek and Polish, demonstrating that patterns of morphological priming in German differ from those obtained in the other two languages. In all experiments compounds were primed by initial morphemes with and without the interfix. In Greek and Polish priming was significantly facilitated in cases where the mophological prime was homophonous with a real word. In German, however, the effect of wordness was found for un-interfixed but not for interfixed primes. Our data suggest that patterns of morphological priming for a given structure may not be generalizable to analogous structures in other languages without a consideration of language-specific morphological properties.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).
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Author/s: Jarema, Gonia (G); Libben, Gary (G); Dressler, Wolfgang (W); Kehayia, Eva (E);
Affiliation: Université de Montréal and Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. jerema(-atsign-)ling.umontreal.ca
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 736-47
Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12081435, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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