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In:All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces
Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 353] 2021
► pp. 127–146

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Chapter 8
Word formation in the brain

Data from aphasia and related disorders

ORCiD logo with link | University of Padova
Published online: 25 August 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.353.08sem
Abstract
Studies in aphasia provide important information about how the brain may represent and process morphologically complex words. The main morphological processes (inflection, derivation and compounding) uncover a fine-grained brain organization. The study of errors, in aphasic syndromes and other disorders like unilateral spatial neglect, clearly determined by failures in morphological processing, has made it possible to clarify several different questions. Evidence was found for stems and affixes to be separately represented. Moreover, evidence for decomposition in processing has also been provided, favoring, however, dual route hypotheses. Information about morphology, it was shown, could persist in absence of the ability to retrieve full phonological forms. Headedness was shown to have psychological reality and neural underpinnings.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Neuropsychological syndromes
  • 3.Morphological errors
  • 4.Decomposition and levels in lexical processing
  • 5.Regular and irregular inflection
  • 6.Gender inflection
  • 7.Derivation
  • 8.The independence of inflection and derivation
  • 9.Morphology without phonology
  • 10.Compounding
  • 11.Conclusion
  • References
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