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Prefixed Word Forms in the German Mental Lexicon Ingrid Sonnenstuhl Meike Hadler Helga Weyerts Harald Clahsen University

Prefixed Word Forms in the German Mental Lexicon Ingrid Sonnenstuhl Meike Hadler Helga Weyerts Harald Clahsen University of Düsseldorf. The Lexical Representation of Derivational Word Forms.

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Prefixed Word Forms in the German Mental Lexicon Ingrid Sonnenstuhl Meike Hadler Helga Weyerts Harald Clahsen University

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  1. Prefixed Word Forms in the German Mental Lexicon Ingrid Sonnenstuhl Meike Hadler Helga Weyerts Harald Clahsen University of Düsseldorf Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  2. The Lexical Representation of Derivational Word Forms • Full form storage of all complex word forms, morphological structure plays no role.(e.g. Butterworth 1983; Rumelhart & McClelland 1986; Bybee 1995) • Full form storage of all complex word forms, morphological structure plays some role.(e.g. Lukatela, Gligorijevic, Kostic, Savier & Turvey 1980; Andrews 1986; Feldman & Fowler 1987; Schriefers, Friederici & Graetz 1992) • Decomposition of complex word forms.(e.g. Taft & Forster 1975; Taft 1979, 1981) • Transparency determines the processing of complex word forms.(e.g. Henderson, Wallis & Knight 1984; Feldman 1994; Marslen-Wilson, Tyler, Waksler & Older 1994; Drews & Zwitserlood 1995) • Different processing of prefixed and suffixed words.(e.g. Marslen-Wilson, Tyler, Waksler & Older 1994) Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  3. PreviousResults Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  4. Two Mechanisms – Three Distinctions Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  5. Research Questions • Do the results from suffixed forms generalize to prefixed forms? • How are derivational forms with a limited productivity represented? Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  6. German Adjectives Investigated bequem 'comfortable' unbequem 'uncomfortable' un + bequem  [ un [ bequem ] ] stabil 'stable' instabil 'unstable' instabil  [ instabil ] Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  7. Experiment 1 Frequency Effects instabil UnprimedLexical Decision Access Representations Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  8. Experiment 1 Frequency Effects • Prediction: Derived word forms are stems by themselves • frequency effects for derived stems Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  9. Experiment 1 Frequency Effects Results • Word- form frequency effects for both derivational forms • Full-form representations • for fully productive • and less productive • prefixed adjectives Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  10. Experiment 2 Cross-Modal Priming [ insta:bi:l ] Cross-ModalPriming stabil Stem-InternalLexical Structures Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  11. Experiment 2 Cross-Modal Priming Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  12. Experiment 2 Cross-Modal Priming Predictions • No decomposition: Separate entries for derivational forms • reduced priming • Decomposition: Repeated access to the same stem • full priming • Dual-Mechanism hypothesis: • full priming for un- adjectives • reduced priming for in- adjectives Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  13. Experiment 2 Cross-Modal Priming Results • Full priming for un- forms • decomposed lexical representations • Reduced priming forin- forms • full-form lexical representations Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  14. Experiment 3 Masked Priming MaskedPriming stabil XXXXXX 500 msec STABIL 60 msec XXXXXX 60 msec Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  15. Experiment 3 Masked Priming Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  16. Experiment 3 Masked Priming Results • Full priming for un- forms • decomposed lexical representations • Reduced priming forin- forms • full-form lexical representations Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  17. Summary • Full-form frequency effects for all derivational forms • Full-form access representations for all derivational forms • Reduced priming for in- adjectives • Storage of derivational forms with limited productivity and transparency • Full priming for derived un- adjectives • Full priming for derived -ung nouns • Full priming for -chen diminutives • Decomposition of transparent and fully productive derivational forms Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

  18. Conclusion full-form access representations, full-form lexical representations Inflection:Irregulars Derivation: Forms with restrictedphonological transparencyand limitedproductivity full-form access representations, morphologically structured lexical representations Inflection:Subregulars Derivation:Forms with fullphonological transparencyand fullproductivity Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, October 5 - 8 2002

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