Morphology in Word Recognition

Abstract

This chapter reviews the psycholinguistic literature on the representation and processing of morphological structure in the recognition of spoken and written words. To anticipate more than a little, this is how we will conclude: psychological morphology does not map neatly on to linguistic morphology. We will argue that the processing and representation of morphologically complex words are determined by performance factors, including order of occurrence of stems and affixes, transparency, productivity and frequency of usage. For this reason, linguistic distinctions – for example, between derivational and inflectional relations – may not map neatly on to processing distinctions.

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