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Morphological paradigms in language processing and language disorders
Author(s) -
Clahsen Harald,
Sonnenstuhl Meike Hadler Ingrid,
Eisenbeiss Sonja
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.00082
Subject(s) - inflection , priming (agriculture) , linguistics , german , computer science , dimension (graph theory) , psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , biology , germination , pure mathematics , philosophy , botany
We present results from two cross‐modal morphological priming experiments investigating regular person and number inflection on finite verbs in German. We found asymmetries in the priming patterns between different affixes that can be predicted from the structure of the paradigm. We also report data from language disorders which indicate that inflectional errors produced by language‐impaired adults and children tend to occur within a given paradigm dimension, rather than randomly across the paradigm. We conclude that morphological paradigms are used by the human language processor and can be systematically affected in language disorders.