Representation of inflected nouns in the internal lexicon.
| Number | 315 |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Drawer | 6 |
| Entry Date | 06/15/1999 |
| Authors | Lukatela, G., Gligorijevic, B., Kostic, A., & Turvey, M. T. |
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| Publication | Memory & Cognition, 8, 415-423. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0315.pdf |
| Abstract | The lexical representation of Serbo-Croatian nouns was investigated in a lexical decision task. Because these nouns are declined, a noun may appear in one of several cases, distinguished by inflectional morphemes. Given several properties of the Serbo-Croatian case & gender systems, an exploration was conducted of three views of how a N is represented: (1) The independent entries hypothesis assumes an independent representation for each grammatical case reflecting its frequency of occurrence. (2) The derivational hypothesis assumes that only the base morpheme is stored with the individual cases derived from separately stored inflectional morphemes & rules for combination. (3) The satellite entries hypothesis assumes that all cases are individually represented with the nominative singular functioning as the nucleus & embodiment of the noun’s frequency, & around which the other cases cluster uniformly. In the present experiment, 27 each of masculine & feminine Ns, concrete, with invariant meaning & easy to read aloud in all cases, were presented in nominative, genitive, & instrumental singular forms along with a set of pseudowords. Subjects (N = 60 undergraduates) were asked to decide as rapidly as possible whether a given string presented on a slide was a word or pseudoword. Results showed a single response pattern for both genders. Lexical decision time was shortest for the nominative singular of both genders, with no latency difference between genitive & instrumental singular. Evidence strongly favors the satellite entries hypothesis. |
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