Chapter published in:
Typical and Impaired Processing in MorphosyntaxEdited by Vincent Torrens
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 64] 2020
► pp. 117–133
Priming paradigmatic gaps
Joakim Vea | University of Bergen
Christer Johansson | University of Bergen
We present an experimental study on paradigmatic gaps in the neuter gender of Norwegian adjectives. The formation of neuter gender forms is typically not complicated, and yet people hesitate to use a predictable set of adjectives. We investigate the effect of priming in order to determine if the missing neuter forms will facilitate lexical decisions for their common gender form, possibly through lemma activation. A clear difference was found between regular and problematic adjectives. This shows that the intuition of speakers is reflected in detectable differences in processing.
Keywords: masked priming, paradigmatic gaps, pseudowords
Published online: 21 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.64.06vea
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.64.06vea
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