Haskins Publications

Number	397
Year	1983
Drawer	7
Entry Date	11/19/1999
Authors	Lukatela, G., Kostic, A., Feldman, L. B., & Turvey, M. T.
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Publication	Memory & Cognition, 11, 59-63.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0397.pdf
Abstract	In normal linguistic usage, the inflected nouns of Serbo-Croatian are usually preceded by prepositions that specify which grammatical case is intended and stress the noun's function in the sentence. In a lexical decision task involving 99 Yugoslavian university students, lexical decision times to nouns in a grammatical case that demands a preposition were faster when the preposition was appropriate to the case than when it was either inappropriate to the case or a nonsense syllable. Results support previous findings that suggest that lexical facilitation occurs among sentential components and that priming thus may be a process that occurs in normal reading.
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