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Regularity and irregularity in an inflectionally complex language: Evidence from Polish
Authors:
REID, A.A. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D.
Reference:
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Mahwah, NJ: Erblaum
Year of publication:
2002
CBU number:
5130
Abstract:
We report two experiments which address the question of whether there is support for single or dual mechanisms in the processing of Polish regular and irregular nouns and verbs. The data from an immediate cross-modal priming experiment (verbs and nouns) revealed that there was significant priming, irrespective of regularity, for both verbs and nouns. The results for verbs were replicated in a second experiment using delayed repetition auditory-auditory priming. The outcome from both experiments is in line with the results reported from research on Italian and French but not with English and German, and suggest that Polish regulars and irregulars are processed by a single underlying cognitive system.
