1. Stem Homographs and Lemma Level Representations
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Allen, Mark and Badecker, William
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LEXICOLOGY , *MORPHOLOGY (Grammar) , *COGNITION , *LANGUAGE & languages , *LINGUISTICS , *PSYCHOLINGUISTICS , *REACTION time , *STATISTICAL sampling , *SEMANTICS - Abstract
Previous studies have found that priming a target like cerr-o (“hill”) with an unmasked stem-homograph (e.g., cerr-ar, “to close”) or with an unmasked allomorph of a stem-homograph (e.g., cierr-a, “he/she/it closes”) has an inhibitory effect on target recognition. We report evidence from stem-homograph priming studies that implicate both morphological parsing and lexical selection processes at the lemma level. We argue that stem-homograph inhibition is the product of lexical selection mechanisms that are engaged just when a fully ambiguous stimulus (here, an inflectional stem) must be assigned one of its viable interpretations in order to afford conscious perception of lexical identity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2002
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