Abstract
We tested the hypothesis that lexical-semantic access of inflected words is governed by the word stem. Object drawings overlaid with a dot/arrow marking position/movement were matched with corresponding linguistic expressions like "from the house". To test whether the stem dominates lexical-semantic access irrespective of its position, we used Swedish prepositional phrases (locative information via preposition immediately preceding the stem) or Finnish case-inflected words (locative information via suffix immediately following the stem). Both in monolingual Swedish and in bilingual Finnish-Swedish speakers, correct stems with incorrect prepositions/case-endings were hardest to reject. This finding supports the view that the stem is indeed the dominant unit in meaning access of inflected words.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Pages (from-to) | – |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |