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Activating verb semantics from the regular and irregular past tense.
Authors:
Longworth, C.E., Randall, B., Tyler, L.K., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D.
Reference:
In J.D. Moore and K. Stenning (Eds), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 570-575. London, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Year of publication:
2001
CBU number:
5195
Abstract:
Theoretical accounts of the processing of inflectional morphology make implicit, untested assumptions about the activation of verb semantics from inflected verbs. This research used semantic priming to investigate the extent to which the past tense activates verb semantics, how this differs from verb stems and between the regular and irregular past tense. Our results suggest that the past tense activates verb semantics to the same extent as verb stems and without differences due to verb regularity. These results provide constraining data for models of inflectional morphology.
