TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphological structure in the lexical representation of prefixed words
T2 - Evidence from speech errors
AU - Melinger, Alissa
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported (in part) by research grant 1 RO1 MH60133-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health awarded to Gail Mauner and Jean-Pierre Koenig. I would like to thank Jean-Pierre Koenig, Karin Michelson, Gail Mauner, Paul Luce, Wendy Baldwin, Eve Ng, Anne Vestergaard, Breton Bienvenue, Asifa Majid, Karin Humphreys and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and support.
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - The present study aims to determine whether semantic relatedness plays a role in the production of speech errors involving derivational morphemes. A word order competition technique was used to induce morpheme and syllable exchange errors. Semantic relatedness was manipulated by contrasting error rates for prefixed words derived from free stems to those derived from bound roots. Significantly more morpheme errors were elicited in the two prefixed conditions compared with the control condition, replicating prior findings in French. Crucially, the two prefixed conditions elicited equal numbers of morpheme errors and there was no correlation between semantic relatedness and error rates. Taken together, the results strongly support a model of speech production in which derivational morphemes are represented at the form level and are not influenced by the degree of semantic relatedness within a morphological family.
AB - The present study aims to determine whether semantic relatedness plays a role in the production of speech errors involving derivational morphemes. A word order competition technique was used to induce morpheme and syllable exchange errors. Semantic relatedness was manipulated by contrasting error rates for prefixed words derived from free stems to those derived from bound roots. Significantly more morpheme errors were elicited in the two prefixed conditions compared with the control condition, replicating prior findings in French. Crucially, the two prefixed conditions elicited equal numbers of morpheme errors and there was no correlation between semantic relatedness and error rates. Taken together, the results strongly support a model of speech production in which derivational morphemes are represented at the form level and are not influenced by the degree of semantic relatedness within a morphological family.
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U2 - 10.1080/01690960244000072
DO - 10.1080/01690960244000072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038726496
SN - 0169-0965
VL - 18
SP - 335
EP - 362
JO - Language and Cognitive Processes
JF - Language and Cognitive Processes
IS - 3
ER -