A neurolinguistic analysis of morphological deficits in a Finnish-Swedish bilingual aphasic

Formulaicity in an agglutinating language: the case of Turkish

“…This focus was chosen because inflectional forms are considered to be, on the whole, actively productive. The question of formulaicity is, therefore, more open than for derivations, which, as we have seen, are considered to be largely unproductive (though it is worth noting that the Finnish morphology studies suggest that derived forms are holistically stored in the input lexicon only, with morpheme-based processing employed in production (Laine, Niemi, Koivuselkä-Sallinen, Ahlsén, & Hynönä, 1994)). Second, some distinct morphemes in Turkish are orthographically indistinguishable from each other.…”

Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia across Scripts

“…Their review found that the error patterns of surface, phonological and deep dyslexia in monolingual speakers in different languages are observed in bilingual speakers [1,2,11,14,15,19,20,24,30,39]. That is not to say that all cases of acquired dyslexia in bilingual speakers show the same pattern of oral reading impairment in both languages.…”

Form-Based Representation in the Mental Lexicon: Priming (with) Bound Stem Allomorphs in Finnish

“…In the spirit of the recent interest in the role of individual languages, Niemi and Laine Laine et al, 1994) proposed a set of hypotheses in the form of the so-called stem allomorph/inflectional decomposition model to capture the empirical results obtained from a series of experiments concerning the processing and representation of Finnish nouns. Apart from positing a semantically based difference between the processing of derivational and inflectional morphology, the most important features of their conception of the recognition of Finnish inflected nouns in general as well as the nature and role of units represented in the mental lexicon for the present inquiry are as follows: (1) Inflected nouns (but not derived nouns) are decomposed in lexical access and (2) Finnish inflected nouns have bound stem allomorph-based representations.…”

“…Niemi et al (1994) and Laine et al (1994) argue that Finnish nouns are parsed into stem and affix in reception and that the bound stem allomorphs have separate (visual) lexical representations. Recently Järvikivi and Niemi (in press) have provided converging evidence for their claim based on a series of lexical decision experiments with Finnish stem allomorphs.…”