Separability of Lexical and Morphological Knowledge: Evidence from Language Minority Children.

ABSTRACT: Lexical and morphological knowledge of school-aged children are correlated with each other, and are often difficult to distinguish. One reason for this might be that many tasks currently used to assess morphological knowledge require children to inflect or derive real words in the language, thus recruiting their vocabulary knowledge. The current study investigated the possible separability of lexical and morphological knowledge using two complementary approaches. First, we examined the correlations between vocabulary and four morphological tasks tapping different aspects of morphological processing and awareness, and using either real-word or pseudo-word stimuli. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that different morphological tasks recruit lexical knowledge to various degrees. Second, we compa

SUBMITTER: Shahar-Yames D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5826353 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature