| Number | 753 |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Drawer | 14 |
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| Entry Date | 11/08/1999 |
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| Authors | Katz, L., Rexer, K., & Lukatela, G. |
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| Publication | Psychological Research, 53, 25-32. |
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| Abstract | Investigated the recognition of inflected words in English (a language with few inflections) and Serbo-Croatian (a language with many inflections) to determine whether an inflected word is identified by first decomposing it into stem plus suffix or by recognizing it as a whole. Preceding the inflection with a brief exposure to the stem did not facilitate recognition of the whole word that followed, and the speed of recognizing an inflected word was more strongly associated with the frequency of the whole inflected form than with the frequency of the stem. These results suggest that in word recognition, lexical contact is first made with the whole word form. Morphological decomposition, however, may still occur in subsequent processing. Findings are interpreted in the context of current models of lexical processing. |
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