Article published in:
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2020Edited by Elena Tribushinina and Mark Dingemanse
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 37] 2020
► pp. 165–179
Morphological processing in nominalizations
A priming study on Dutch
Emma van Lipzig | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Jan Don | Universiteit van Amsterdam
A major debate in psycholinguistics concerns the representation of morphological structure in the mental lexicon.
We report the results of an auditory primed lexical decision experiment in which we tested whether verbs prime their
nominalizations in Dutch. We find morphological priming effects with regular nominalizations (schorsen ‘suspend’
→ schorsing ‘suspension’) as well as with irregular nominalizations (schieten ‘shoot’ →
schot ‘shot’). On this basis, we claim that, despite the lack of phonological identity between stem and
derivation in the case of irregular nominalizations, the morphological relation between the two forms, suffices to evoke a priming
effect. However, an alternative explanation, according to which the semantic relation in combination with the phonological overlap
accounts for the priming effect, cannot be excluded.
Keywords: morphological processing, nominalizations, stem allomorphy, priming
Published online: 27 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00044.lip
https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00044.lip
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