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Derivational and inflectional morphemes in the Polish mental lexicon: Preliminary studies.
Authors:
Reid, A.A, & Marslen-Wilson, W.D.
Reference:
In C. Schaner-Wolles, J.R. Rennison & F. Neubarth (Eds.), Naturally! Linguistic studies in honour of Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Torino, Itally: Rosenberg & Sellier.
Year of publication:
2000
CBU number:
4192
Abstract:
This paper presents some preliminary psycholinguistic research into the mental lexicon of Polish. The representation of morphologically complex words was probed using a variety of priming techniques. Experiment 1, using cross-modal priming, supports a combinatorial model of the mental lexicon with the stems and affixes stored separately. Experiments 2 and 3 probe the representation of verbs with regular and irregular alternations, using both the cross-modal technique as well as an auditory-auditory delayed repetition task designed to dissociate semantic effects from morphological ones. The results indicate that both regular and irregular alternants map onto the same underlying morpheme. Overall, these preliminary results are consistent with prevalent models derived from English. Subsequent research will need to probe in more detail possible qualitative differences between English and Polish, involving the rich systems of Polish inflectional and derivational morphology.
