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Lexical status of inflectional and derivational suffixes: Evidence from Finnish
Author(s) -
LAINE MATTI
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00656.x
Subject(s) - pseudoword , linguistics , inflection , noun , psychology , lexical item , lexical access , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience
The present study tested whether Finnish inflectional or derivational suffixes have lexical access units separate from word roots. In three lexical decision experiments, pseudowords carrying a case‐inflection required significantly longer rejection times than nonaffixed pseudowords. This suggests that case‐inflections have separate lexical access units. Similar effects were obtained for productive derivational suffixes, too. A specific lexical architecture, being able to account for both the present pseudoword results as well as earlier ones obtained with real Finnish nouns, is proposed.