Paradigmatic Relations Interact During the Production of Complex Words: Evidence From Variable Plurals in Dutch.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of work in psycholinguistics suggests that morphological relations between word forms affect the processing of complex words. Previous studies have usually focused on a particular type of paradigmatic relation, for example the relation between paradigm members, or the relation between alternative forms filling a particular paradigm cell. However, potential interactions between different types of paradigmatic relations have remained relatively unexplored. This paper presents two corpus studies of variable plurals in Dutch to test hypotheses about potentially interacting paradigmatic effects. The first study shows that generalization across noun paradigms predicts the distribution of plural variants, and that this effect is diminished for paradigms in which the plural variants

SUBMITTER: Zee T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442732 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature