1. Exploiting Degrees of Inflectional Ambiguity: Stem Form and the Time Course of Morphological Processing.
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Järvikivi, Juhani, Pyykkönen, Pirita, and Niemi, Jussi
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VOCABULARY , *WORD order (Grammar) , *MORPHOLOGY (Grammar) , *LINGUISTICS education , *LANGUAGE & languages , *PHONEMICS - Abstract
The authors compared sublexical and supralexical approaches to morphological processing with unambiguous and ambiguous inflected words and words with ambiguous stems in 3 masked and unmasked priming experiments in Finnish. Experiment I showed equal facilitation for all prime types with a short 60-ms stimulus Onset asynchrony (SOA) but significant facilitation for unambiguous words only with a long 300-ms SOA. Experiment 2 showed that all potential readings of ambiguous inflections were activated under a short SOA. Whereas the prime-target form overlap did not affect the results under a short SOA, it significantly modulated the results with a long SOA. Experiment 3 confirmed that the results from masked priming were modulated by the morphological structure of the words but not by the prime-target form overlap alone. The results support approaches in which early prelexical morphological processing is driven by morph-based segmentation and form is used to cue selection between 2 candidates only during later processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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