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Vol. 13:3 (2018) ► pp.285–310

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Effects of the relationships between forms within and across paradigms on lexical processing and representation

An experimental investigation of Russian nouns

 | Brigham Young University
Published online: 14 May 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.18013.par
Abstract
The frequency and distribution of forms within a lexeme’s paradigm affect how quickly forms are accessed (e.g., Kostić, A. (1991). Informational approach to the processing of inflected morphology: Standard data reconsidered. Psychological Research, 53(1), 62–70. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Milin, P., Filipović Đurđević, D., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2009). The simultaneous effects of inflectional paradigms and classes on lexical recognition: Evidence from Serbian. Journal of Memory and Language, 60(1), 50–64. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Moscoso del Prado Martı́n, F., Kostić, A., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Putting the bits together: an information theoretical perspective on morphological processing. Cognition, 94(1), 1–18. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). The distribution of forms across paradigms, in contrast, has received little experimental attention. Theoretical studies investigate the distribution of forms across paradigms because forms vary in how predictive they are of other (unknown) forms. Such investigations have uncovered typological tendencies (e.g., Ackerman, F., & Malouf, R. (2013). Morphological organization: The low entropy conjecture. Language, 89(3), 429–464. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Stump, G. T., & Finkel, R. A. (2013). Morphological typology: From word to paradigm. New York: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) and contribute to explanations of language-specific phenomena (e.g., Sims, A. D. (2015). Inflectional Defectiveness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Parker, J., & Sims, A. D. (To appear). Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns. In P. Arkadiev & F. Gardani (Eds.), The Complexities of Morphology.). The intersection of these research approaches raises questions about how the distribution of forms within and across paradigms affects lexical access and representation. Based on forms of Russian nouns representing two morphosyntactic property sets and lexemes from three inflection classes, it is shown that speakers are sensitive to differences in form and morphosyntactic property set in a visual lexical decision task. In a priming task, nominative forms prime locative forms better than vice versa regardless of suffix, despite differences between the same forms in the lexical decision task. These results suggest that speakers make generalizations about forms across classes, including at the level of word forms and morphosyntactic property sets.
Article outline
  • Paradigms in lexical access and representation
    • Forms and frequencies within paradigms
    • Remaining questions about paradigmatic structure
  • Relationships between forms across classes; implicative structure
    • Implicative structure in Russian nouns
      • Predictiveness of morphosyntactic property sets
      • Predictiveness of forms in different classes
  • Experiment 1.Visual lexical decision task
    • Method
      • Participants
      • Stimuli
      • Procedure
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • Experiment 2.Masked priming visual lexical decision task
    • Method
      • Participants
      • Stimuli
      • Procedure
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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