caa a22 4500 467938504 CHVBK 20180406153005.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-005-9008-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-005-9008-1 Recognition of Inflected Words in a Morphologically Limited Language: Frequency Effects in Monolinguals and Bilinguals [Elektronische Daten] [Minna Lehtonen, Helge Niska, Erling Wande, Jussi Niemi, Matti Laine] The effect of word frequency on the processing of monomorphemic vs. inflected words was investigated in a morphologically relatively limited language, Swedish, with two participant groups: early Finnish-Swedish bilinguals and Swedish monolinguals. The visual lexical decision results of the monolinguals suggest morphological decomposition with low-frequency inflected nouns, while with medium- and high-frequency inflections, full-form processing was apparently employed. The bilinguals demonstrated a similar pattern. The results suggest that morpheme-based recognition is employed even in a morphologically limited language when the inflectional forms occur rarely. With more frequent inflectional forms, full-form representations have developed for both mono- and bilingual speakers. In a comparable study employing a morphologically rich language, Finnish, Lehtonen and Laine (2003, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 6, 213-225) observed full-form access only at the high-frequency range and only for monolinguals. These differences suggest that besides word frequency and language background, the morphological richness of a language affects the processing mode employed with polymorphemic words Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 morphological processing nationallicence inflected nouns nationallicence word frequency nationallicence bilingualism nationallicence language structure nationallicence Lehtonen Minna Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, 20500, Turku, Finland aut Niska Helge Department of Finnish, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden aut Wande Erling Department of Finnish, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden aut Niemi Jussi Linguistics, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland aut Laine Matti Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, 20500, Turku, Finland aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/2(2006-03-01), 121-146 0090-6905 35:2<121 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-005-9008-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-005-9008-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lehtonen Minna Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, 20500, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Niska Helge Department of Finnish, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wande Erling Department of Finnish, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Niemi Jussi Linguistics, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Laine Matti Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, 20500, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/2(2006-03-01), 121-146 0090-6905 35:2<121 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer