Effects of the relationships between forms within and across paradigms on lexical processing and
representation
An experimental investigation of Russian nouns
The frequency and distribution of forms within a lexeme’s paradigm affect how quickly forms are accessed (e.g.,
Kostić, 1991; Milin, Filipović Đurđević, &
Moscoso del Prado Martín, 2009; Moscoso del Prado Martı́n, Kostić, & Baayen,
2004). 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 & Malouf,
2013; Stump & Finkel, 2013) and contribute to explanations of
language-specific phenomena (e.g., Sims, 2015; Parker & Sims, To appear). 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
-
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