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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/135075| Title: | Priming Maltese plurals : representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon |
| Authors: | Nieder, Jessica van de Vijver, Ruben Mitterer, Holger |
| Keywords: | Maltese language -- Morphology Psycholinguistics -- Malta Maltese language -- Psychological aspects Grammar, Comparative and general -- Number Maltese language -- Number Semitic languages -- Morphology Language and languages -- Variation |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. |
| Citation: | Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R., & Mitterer, H. (2021). Priming Maltese plurals : representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon. The Mental Lexicon, 16(1), 69-97. |
| Abstract: | We investigate the storage and processing of sound and broken plural forms in the Maltese lexicon by means of a cross-modal priming study. The results show no significant differences in reaction time between sound and broken plurals, but indicate a different priming effect for sound than for broken plurals. We argue that the different priming effect is a result of the phonological overlap between sound singulars and their corresponding plurals forms, while broken singulars and their plurals do not share the same phonological structure. Our results support a single-mechanism model of morphological processing in which both frequency of pattern and morphophonological similarity interact. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/135075 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsLin |
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