“…Evidence from priming experiments (Kazanina, Dukova-Zheleva, Geber, Kharlamov, & Tonciulescu, 2008 ), for example, indicates that L1 speakers of Russian decompose diminutive forms into their morphological constituents during word recognition; see Clahsen, Sonnenstuhl, and Blevins ( 2003 ) for parallel results on L1 German. For infl ectional morphology in L1 Russian, Slioussar et al (2014) reported a brain-imaging experiment showing the familiar contrasts between regular and irregular infl ection that have been obtained in comparable studies on German (Beretta et al, 2003 ) and other languages. These studies indicate that it is not the case that speakers of Russian rely less on morphology and morphosyntax for word recognition in their L1 than do German speakers in their L1.…”